Abstract
The Swedish Military Postal History society (SMPS) and the Swedish Postal History Society (SSPD) have started a joint project with purpose to catalogue Swedish Wreck and Crash Mail. The project is also supported by the Wreck & Crash Mail society
User's manual
Quick refernce guide
Click on lables Fartyg(ships) etc to open or close a list of incidents.
Listed items
This page lists wreck and cash items:
- handled by the Swedish Post Office
- Swedish ships with foreign labels and cachets
- Swedish air crafts with foreign labesl and cachets
- SAS incidents
For incidents with at the moment no known covers the dates are inclosed by parentheses.
Numbering system used
Air crashes listed in Nierinck are listed as N+numbered used by Nierinck.
Items not listed are noted with NiN+date, can be read as Not in Niericnk.
Non air items are listed as SE followed by the date.
Rörvik (train accident) lists as SE19540906 and the sinking of Bore as Bore SE18991231.
Literature
- Handbooks
- Hoggarth, Norman & Gwynn, Robin; Maritime Disaster Mail A Study of mail salvaged from maritime disasters, as casualities of war, collisions, fires, shipwrecks and stranding
- Gwynn, Robin & Hoggarth, Norman; Railway Disaster Mail, Stuart Rossiter Trust 2010
- Nierinck, Henri L.; Recovered Mail 1910-1936 & Recovered Mail 1937-1988
- Lüning, örjan; Luftposten historia i Norden, The History of Airmail in Scandinavia
- Magazine articles
- SSPD Aktuellt om Posthistoria Nr 8: Ruud,Leif: försummad och Olycksdrabbad post fram till 1900
- Auction catalogues
- Harmers; Günter Heyd Sale
- Van Dieten;
- Spinks 6 December 2006; Maritime Wreck Covers of the World, The John Woolfe Collection
- Cavendish 23rd January 2008; The Norman Hoggarth Maritime Disaster Mail
- Web Pages