Occassional Paper No. 11: vol. Supplement to 15(4): 1-28

The Postmark and Postal History Society of SA incorporating the Colonial Society

The Maritime Postal History of Natal 1824 - 1901

Plot

1: Editorial Introduction
3: Preface
5: Introduction, The Dutch and Natal; Port Natal Settlement
6: Port Natal 1824-1833
7: Shaka's Death
8: The first missionary Posts; Comment 1835 1836 1837
10: DEvelopments in 1838; 1839 and Peace Signed
11: Port Natal 1840-1841; Ship Letter Rates Cape of Good Hope 1826; Ships at Port Natal 1840-1841
12:British Occupation of Port Natal; Ships calling in 1842; Shipping movements at Port Natal 1843-1845
13: Developments in 1846
14: Natal's temporary Post Offices 1846; Ship letter charges
15: Ships calling at Port Natal - 1846; Ships and sea mails 1847 - 1849
16: Natal POst Office Ordinance 1847; Developments in 1848
17: Shipping in 1849
18: Postal Charges; Sea mails 1850-1851;
19: 1851; Steam Mail Transport 1851
20: The 1850-1852 Mail Service England and the Cape; Postal charges; difficulties arising in Natal 1851-1852;
21: Nata; dicussions leading to the establishments of the CApe-Natal mail service; The England-Cape packet service and its Extension between the Cape, Mauritius, Ceylon and India;
22: The supplementary Cape-Natal contracts 1852;
23: The Sir Robert Peel's voyages
26: The period 1854-1857; shipping in 1855;
27: Shipping in 1856; The mail ships of 1855 and 1856
28: December 1855; British Post Office Notice 1 December 1855; Cape and Natal -The Service of JT Rennie and Company
29: Approximate sailing dates of the Madagascar February to October 1857; The Union steamship company and the Cape 1857;
30: Postage Packet ships July 1857; Approximate outward sailing dates of Madagascar and Waldensian Cape Town-Natal; Approximate outward sailing dates;
31: The wrecking of the Madagascar;
32: The Waldensian Service
33: Postal rates 1856-1863
34: The England-Cape mail contract 1857-1862; The England-Cape mail contract 1863; Supplementary mail contract Cape-Natal 1864;
35: Postage Rates (Cape and Natal) 1864, Goldblatt 1864; Postage rates (England - Natal). Abstract from Hart, Kantey and Leon; The CApe-Natal supplementary sevice 1863-1864; The Cape-Mauritius via Natal extended service 1864;
36: Comment of the Cape Mauritius service 1864;
38: Developments in 1866;
39: Postal rates Cape almanac; The England-Cape Mail Contract 1868; Aberdeen Line of Clippers to Natal 1854;
40: The Inter-Colonial service 1868;
41: The Zanzibar mail service 1873; The Mail route CApe-Natal 1873;
42: The Zanzibar service 1873;
43: Postal Rates
44: The diamond Line 1864;
45: Donald Currie Chips 1872; The third England - Cape mail contract; The CAstle Line (Cape -Natal service);
46: The Ocean Mail Service 1873; Postage rates; Sailing ships (England and Natal 1860-1879)
47: Indian imigration 1860-1889; Mails from the Cape to England (October 1876 - March 1877);
48: The CApe-Natal service (Inter-colonial) Union Line; Castle line Mail ships 1878; Union Line Mail Ships 1878; Castle Line Mail Ships 1879;
49: Union Line Mail Ships 1879; Castle Line Mail Ships 1880; Union Line Mail Ships 1880; Castle Line Mail Ships 1881;
50: Union Mail ships 1881; Castle Mail Ships 1882; Union Mail ships 1882;
51: Castle Mail Ships to end of September 1883; Union mail ships end of September 1883; Natal-Mauritius service 1879;
52: Postage Rates; The Madagascar supplementary service;
54: The fourth mail contract; 1876-1883 comment;
55: The Lisbon communication with Natal;
56: Lisbon supplementary mails; Natal English mail; Lisbon Mails; Castle mail ships October 1883-1884; Union mail ships October 1883-1884;
57: Castle Line mail ships 1885; Unon Line Mail ships 1885; Castle Line Mail Ships 1886; Union Line mail ships 1886; Castle Line mail ships 1887;
58: Union line mail ships 1887; Castle mail ships to September 1888*; Union Mail Ships to September 1888*; Comment (October 1883-1888 4th contract); Mail, extra/intermediate and coastal ships;
59: The 5th sea mail contract;
60: Castle Mail ships 1 October 1888-1889; Union mail ships 1 October 1888-1889; Natal letters by Private Sips 1884-1888;
61: Parcel Post England and Natal 1887; Postage rates; Cape Natal Sea Post contracts; 1889 Cape-Natal mails; Natal mail contract; Supplementary Natal Mails; The Cape-Natal coasters 1890-1891;
62: Postage Rates Natal; Natal mails for England 1891; Natal mails (Supplementary for foreign poarcel Post); Natal Postage Rates 1893 (In force 1894);
63: Cape and Natal - Universal Postal Union; Castle Mail Ships 1890; Union mail ships 1890; Castle mail ships 1891;
64: Union mail ships 1891; Castle mail ships 1892; Union mail ships 1892; Castle mail ships until 30 September 1893;
65: Union mail ships until 30 September 1893; Intermediate Service 1893;
66: Natal- Australia/New Zealand Service 1890-1891; Natal's Sea Mails 1892; Terminal posts for the Ocean Mail streamers;
67: Ocean Post Office; Sixth Sea Mail Contract October 1893-1900; Castle Mail Ships October 1893-1894; Union Mail ships October 1893-1894;
68: Cape - Natal packets July 1893-30 June 1894; Castle Mail Ships 1895; Union Mail SHips 1895; Sixth Ocean Mail Contract 1893-1894;
69: Overland route to Natal via the South African Republic; Book rate postage Cape and Natal; Natal Ocen Mails to and from the United Kingdom; Mails between Natal and England 1896;
70: Castle Mail Ships 1896; Union mail ships 1896; Castle mail ships 1897; Union mail ships 1897; Castle mail ships 1898;
71: Union mail ships 1898; Castle mail ships 1899; Union mail ships 1899; Natal mails to and from United Kingdom 1896; Mails between Natal, India, China and the Far East;
72: Postage Rates - South African Postal Union; Castle Mail Ships January - September 1900; Union Mail ships January - September 1900;
73: Mails at the commencement of the SA War 1899; At the close of the war;
74: East African services via Natal;
75: Rhodesia via Beira; Natal-Delagoa Bay Sea Mail Route; Other European services to Natal; The MRP (Mala Real Potugeza);
77: Appendix 2; Packet Ships England-Cape Mail Service 1850; Appendix 3;
78: Appendix 4; Union Line Mail Ships (Ocean Mails) 1st Mail Contract 1857-1862); Union Line 2nd Mail Contract 1863-1870;
79: Contract Extended 1876 (Joint Contract with Castle Line)
80: 3rd Contract Ocean Mail Service (5 October 1876 - 30 September 1883); 4th Contract (Ocean Mail Service) 1 October 1888 - 30 September 1893)
81: 5th Contract (Ocean Mail Service) 1 October 1888 - 30 September 1893); 6th Contract (Ocean Mail Service) October 1893-1900;
82: Appendix 5; Currie's Ships (Castle Mail Packet Co.) 1872- 30 September 1876 Joint Cont.
83: 3rd Contract Castle Line 5 October 1876 - 30 September 1883;
84: 4th Contract (Castle Line) October 1883-September 1888
85: 5th Contract (Castle Line) September 1888 - 1 October 1893
86: 6th Conract (Castle Line) 1 October 1893-1900
87: Appendix 6; Mails from Natal Outward from England January 1890
88: Castle Line Mails for Natal Outward from England January 1890