OTHER MARITIME COVERS

24 Jun 70 - Beauville - as above but return cover. Hovercraft VA3.

10 Nov 73 - Stage Exercise Absalon Express - ASB N6 Mks.657 Kalundborg-Landebaek - 200 Hovercraft trials Sqn. R.C.T.

20 Mar 74 - Gosport - Exercise Whitebait Cleethorpes-Lee-on-Solent via Regwell Bay and Dover.

9 Jul 74 - Gosport - Interservice Hovercraft Unit SRnN6 Mk.5 XT 657. First Flight I.H.V. (Trial and Acceptance). Pilot: Lt. Copus RN and Navigator: P.O. Tew.

28 Jun 77 - BFPS 5277 - Silver Jubilee Review of Fleet at Spithead. Official Royal Navy Commemorative cover. 10p Silver Jubilee stamp.

28 Jun 77 - BFPS 5277 - Silver Jubilee Review of Fleet at Spithead. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with blue Royal Yacht carried on board - Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal Official cover.

28 Jun 77 - Gosport Hants - Silver Jubilee stamp. Royal Review of the Fleet Spithead by HM The Queen and HRH Prince Philip.

5 Sep 79 - London - The Queen and Members of Her Family Today Lead the Nation's Mourning at the Ceremonial Funeral Service of Earl Mountbatten of Burma at Westminster Abbey.

20 Nov 85 - Cape Town/Kaapstad paquebot postmark on RSA 11c stamp. Special M.V. S.A. Agulhas cover with 6 special cachets. Black South Atlantic T.O.G.A. Buoy programme and BPI Survey 19 Jan 85. Backstamp posted at sea violet oceanographic sounding. Red survey on Gondwanaland mosaic Bernard Price Inst. Witwaterstrand University and green Department of Transport Weather Buoys. Back ship details. Backstamped as above.

26 Jan 87 - Cape Town/Kaapstad paquebot postmark on RSA 12c stamp. Special M.V. S.A. Agulhas cover with 5 special cachets. Violet posted 1 Jan 87 at sea off Antarctic Ice Shelf M.V. S.A. Agulhas. Green Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research Gondwanaland Weddell Sea violet oceanographic soundings. Black voyage 47' and ship details and red furthest south 75.65 28 Ow - ship record. Backstamped as above.

1 Sep 89 - 8 Cape Town/Kaapstad paquebot postmarks on RSA 2c and 16c stamps. M.V. S.A. Agulhas cover with 6 special cachets. Blue voyage 55 ship details Green Department of Environment Weather Buoys violet posted off Gough Island at sea. M.V. S.A. Agulhas red Gough Island violet Department of Environment M.V. S.A. Agulhas helicopter flight and blue oceanographic sounding. Backstamped as above.