- £75.00
Thailand. (Siam Steam Navigation Company - Postmarks). Circa 1910. Siam SG 125, 2s on 1a green and yellow tied by oval 'S.S. "Boribat" in carmine.
The "S.S. "Boribat" (563 tones) was built in 1902 for the 'Siam Steam Navigation Company'. The Company was formed as the Danish East Asiatic Company' in 1897. The Company had a steamer calling port to port from Bangkok down the Malay Peninsula with passengers, goods and had a contract to carry the mail. More vessels were added until the 'Siam Steam Navigation Co.' was founded in 1909. The steamers would carry mail from port to port in the ships mail bag. Loose letters were cancelled by the Purser's fancy rubber hand-stamp and cancelled mail on board ship is very rare indeed.
The 'S.S. "Boribat" collided with another steamer on 16th March 1923 and broke her stern, for most of q1927 she was stranded on a sandbank near Trengganu by a monsoon.
