RMS Caronia Timeline: Ephemera Folio - Caronia Postcards Pt.1

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The Caronia Postcard Collection Part 1

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Caronia postcard No.9 — J. Arthur Dixon card

An aerial view of Caronia on what
is believed to be her
sea trials

First standard
company issue card based upon the painting
by C.E. Turner.

Later standard
company issue card showing pale green
instead of white superstructure.

Caronia seen
berthed in Southampton's
Old Docks.

Caronia at Panama — Caronia leaving Miraflores Lock in the Panama Canal

Postcard # 4 — An early card published by Dearden & Wade, Bournemouth

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J. Salmon Postcard of the early 1950s with a 23 August 1953 postmark.

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For historical interest stamps on this card show the new QE-II Coronation Series 1½d stamp beside a KG-VI ½d stamp

The Same Card?

The two cards shown on the left have been deliberately placed beside each other. At first sight, it might not be too obvious that they are in fact taken from the same photograph. Although the monochrome one shows the ship dressed overall, the colour one doesn't. Yet just discernible on the monochrome card is exactly the same cloud pattern and what really gives it away is the water displaced by the hull.

An O.W. Hoffman of Southampton card.
Undated, with 1949 ladders in place

A Galachrome card distributed by
Coastal Cards
of Clacton-on-Sea

A Cunard postcard often used for
recording Transatlantic
crossing logs…

A Raphael Tuck postcard SHN39
probably from 1949

RMS Caronia Timeline

Ephemera Folio
Caronia Postcards Part 1

The Cunard White Star Line's ‘Green Goddess’

Luxurious ocean travel aboard a world-famous British cruise liner

The Caronia Postcard Collection Part 1

The Same Card?