Autograph/Information request
Sent by Bray to The Captain of + (cigarette card depicting "HMS Ophir") + Sydney Harbour, Australia on 3rd April 1901.
The card bears two copies of the 1900 ½d Jubilee” blue-green, each cancelled by a Wexford CDS dated 30th April 1901 as well as a variety of receiving date stamps and an instructional cachet stating that the card was To be returned to the sender at the address shown on cover. Returned from R.L.O. London, the instruction being deleted once Bray’s name and address had been added
The postcard was returned to Bray from Sydney signed by W. Gask, Ship's Secretary.
RMS Ophir was a twin-screw ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company of London, which worked the company's London - Aden - Colombo - Australia route from 1891. In 1901 she served as the Royal Yacht HMS Ophir taking the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) on a tour of nearly the whole of the British Empire.
