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Auction: 17025 - Bermuda, Crossroads of the Atlantic: A Postal History from 1617 to 1877 - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 102

(x) Packet Letters
The Cunard Line, 1833-1886
The last Admiralty packet left Falmouth on 6 June 1840, Thereafter Cunard steamers assumed the transatlantic route under contract to the Admiralty, using Liverpool as their home base. From January 1848, Cunard's transatlantic service altered weekly between Boston and New York, however after July 1848 the New York steamers did not stop at Halifax. There are five different routes
Route 1, May 1840-July 1848, Sail to Halifax
Cunard sailing vessels carried mail between Bermuda and Halifax twice a month though only once a month during the winter
The route was Liverpool-Halifax-Boston-(or New York, Jan.-July 1848)-Halifax-Liverpool by steamer; Halifax-Bermuda-Halifax by sail
1842 (8 Oct.) OHMS War Office printed entire from London to the Governor of Bermuda, Major-General William Reid, from Liverpool per Cunard R.M.S. Caledonia to Halifax and per Lady Olga to Bermuda, showing Crowned Paid (8.10) and Liverpool (10.10) datestamps, the brief comments noted refer to letters on public service for any Department of the War Office being directed to the Secretary of War. Official mail to Bermuda at this time is scarce

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