Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

S.S "Mormacpine". 1964 (March) Stampless Brazilian Post Office cover to New York with an unclear Brazil Poste Restante c.d.s and the black cachet "MAIL INVOLVED IN FIRE ABOARD THE / SS MORMACPIN, MAIL RECEIVED IN / WET CONDITION. INSPECTORS CASE / NY30309", arrival backstamp of April 16th. The S.S "Mormacpine" was en route from Santos to Quebec when she reported a fire in No.4 hold on March 27th. The hold was flooded and she proceeded to Bermuda and then onto New York where the fire was found to still be smouldering; it was finally extinguished on April 2nd, the mails unloaded the following day found to be damaged by water. Photo on Page 48.
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