Bermuda Stamps

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  • 1939 Pan Am First Transatlantic Airmail Northern Route

    1939 Pan Am First Transatlantic Airmail Northern Route

    First Transatlantic Airmail First acceptance of mail via New York – Southampton service (northern route). The Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper flew across the Atlantic on a route from Southampton to Port Washington, New York with enroute stops at Foynes, Ireland, Botwood, Newfoundland, and Shediac, New Brunswick. The inaugural trip flew on June 24th 1939. Pan…

  • 1939 Pan Am First Transatlantic Airmail Southern Route

    1939 Pan Am First Transatlantic Airmail Southern Route

    First official airmail despatch from Great Britain First Official Airmail despatch from Great Britain to Bermuda. Pan Am initiated two transatlantic air service routes with the Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper.  The Southern Route operated via Bermuda and the Azores en route to Lisbon, Portugal and Marseille, France. See Northern Route… CDS: 1.15PM 30 MY 39…

  • 1937 Bermuda to New York Air Service RMA Cavalier First Flight

    1937 Bermuda to New York Air Service RMA Cavalier First Flight

    Commemorating the first flight between Bermuda and New York Cavalier was a Short Empire flying boat with the registration G-ADUU that had been launched on 21 November 1936 and delivered to Imperial Airways. In 1937, Imperial Airways and Pan American World Airways opened up a New York-Bermuda-London flying-boat passenger service. Imperial Airways used Cavalier on…