Lot 00967

4.3.1933. Alexandria – Athens by Imperial Airways. “Satyrus” crash mail at Patroclos island. Air cover with depart. canc. “CAIRO / D / 3-MR.33” & arr. canc. “ΑΘΗΝΑΙ – ΑΦΙΞΙΣ ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΩΣ / -5.ΙΙΙ.33”. The Liner “G ABFC” (Short S.17 Kent Scipio) was obliged to make a forced landing, due to lack of petrol, on a heavy sea, near Patroclos Island, off cape Sounion. Mail was taken to Athens the same evening. ONLY 3 KNOWN – Goddard No.311. (Sanford p.66)