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s/s Bore
delivered from Helsingør Jernskibs- og Maskinbyggeri in 1898 as
building #69,
703 Brt 900 ps and speed of 12,6 Kn
vessel arrived first
time in Turku on 27. January 1898. |
She sailed the route Åbo -
Mariehamn - Stockholm
From Åbo Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 5 pm and from Stockholm
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8 pm |
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Bore sank in the
morning 31st of Dec. 1899 on her way to Stockholm.
No lifes were lost but all
luggage and 20 mailbags went down.
In the following 3
weeks the luggage were salvaged together with 17 of the 20 bags from 36 meters
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The saved mail were
brought to Stockholm and dried - and a small label was added, and then
the mail were re-sent from middle of January.
<- Bore
card from 19. January 1900
21*14mm label attached to
explane damaged card |
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In august 1900 an attempt
to raise the Bore was made - but failed due to early ice - but divers
found futher 2 mail-bags. these letter and cards were resent from
Stockholm in August and September 1900
<- Letter from Bore sent from
Helsinki to Falun, Sweden - with arrival postmark from 31. August 1900
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In May 1901 salvage of Bore succeded
- and yet another - the final mailbag was found
<- Letter from the final Bore
mailbag sent from Finland to Stockholm, Sweden arrival postmark from
3rd May 1901.
cover stamped with a OBESTÄLLBART on front and okand; adress
icke här anmäld on back. ( not able to deliver / Unknown; adress not
known )
new labels, 36*18mm, were printed for the
last mailbag |
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