REGISTERED
/ CAVITE, P.I.
Unlisted
Purple Registry Postmark
1902 JULY
11: CAVITE to DETRIOT
From the U.S.S.
Isla de Cuba, franked with a pair and 3 singles of a US 2c carmine Washington
booklet pane (214b) for 10c Single Outbound Registered Rate (2c + 8c Registry
Fee), tied with segmented cork killers, CAVITE purple registry dispatch
on the sde. on the sde. Reverse with purple d/r RECEIVED /
JUL 12 / MANILA P.I. cds, and Detroit, August 19th, 1902 d/r cds cancels.
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The 3-line
REGISTERED / JUL 11 1902 / CAVITE, P.I. registry marking is not listed
by Goodale and Baker, the latter lists a 4-line marking with "Military
Sta. No 2, Cavite / Philippine Islands" as the 3rd and 4th lines of the
postmark shown below.
Originally
the Spanish Isla de Luzon class cruiser, the Isla de Cuba was launched
at Newcastle on the Tyne in December, 1886. Part of the Spanish squadron
in the Philippines the ship was sunk in the Battle of Manila Bay on May
1, 1898.
Salvaged,
the ship was commissioned as the USS Isla de Cuba in 1900. Sold to Venezuela
in 1912 the ship served as the Mariscal Sucre until scrapped in 1940. |