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QUEBEC & GULF PORTS S.S.CO.
FLAMBOROUGH
She was built by Oswald & Co in Sunderland and grossed only 670 tons. She was designed
as a collier for J.L. Livesay. In 1874 she was sold to the Quebec and Gulf Ports S.S. Co. for whom
she was re-engined in 1880 and her yards removed. In 1891 she was registered in Bermuda and
recorded as being on the New York service. In the late 1890’s she was sold and then resold to
owners in Bermuda, and was finally broken up there in 1901.
T B A R B A D O S I ^ B A R B A D O S :
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A cover addressed to Philadelphia, franked with 2 x 4d Barbadian adhesives paying a double
!/2 oz rate which were cancelled by a boot heel duplex on 10th July 1883. The cover was landed in
New York on the 23 and back stamped in Philadelphia a day later, a transit of 14 days.
