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Maritime Mail S.S. "ALT AI"

Hamburg American Line (HAP AG)
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1903 (June) Jamaica picture postcard wild Falls stamp tied by single line "ALTAI" hand
stamp in RED applied at sea. Arrived in New York where "PAQUEBOT (N.Y. 2D DIV)
1903" (picture side). Hamburg arrival eds on front. , I I A L TA I ' '
his applied, eds "NEW YORK, FOR. BCH JUN 23

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Only recorded Jamaican stamp usage with "ALTAI" his (ex-Swarbrick).
S.S. "ALTAI'' - built 1897, 2,480 tons, cargo vessel for the Atlas Steamship Company as
a fruitship for the Liverpool-Canary Island trade. She was sold to the Hamburg American
Line in 1901 for the West Indies ATLAS SERVICE as a fruit carrier to New York.
Photo-copy of Altai and information from "Steamship Lines to the Caribbean" by
Michael R. Rego, published by the British West Indies Study Circle (2005).

Altai ATLAS SERVICE 1901- 1913, New York- West Indies routes.