Feeder flights
With the close of the 1935 season the era of catapult flights was over, as the now regular Zeppelin airship flights were servicing the relevan destinations. However feeder flights to the steamer “Europa” continued to be operated until the end of 1936.
For the Danzig collector not only are the flights in the direction of America interesting but so are the catapult flights on the return journeys to Southampton and so on, being
a) when they are destined for Danzig and bear airmail forwarding endorsement handstamps of there,
b) quite particularly, when these sendings are partially franked with Danzig postage stamps (as used on reply postcards). The addition of foreign stamps make for interesting mixed frankings.
It is relevant to give as an example here a 2OPf reply postcard supplemented with USA postage stamps totalling l8c, that was flown on a catapult flight from the steamer “Europa” to Southampton oz 17.9.1930.
When the numbers of sendings forwarded by catapult mail from Danzig were very small, so indeed the numbers of sendings to Danzig were. correspondingly more insignificant.
The purpose of catapult mail was to provide a means of getting mail to the addressee a dayearlier than would otherwise have been possible from a ship into port; the purpose of the feeder flights was so that late pos mail could in general still reach the ship before its departure from the last European port. .
Feeder flights to the steamer “Columbus”
Serial Take-off
number from Cologne ‘
1 30.7.1930
2 19.8.1930
3 7.9.1930
4 30.9.1930
5 26.10.1930
6 3.7.1931
7 5.8.1931
8 19.5.1932
9 18.6.1932
10 7.7.1932
11 26.7.1932
12 13.8.1932
13 5.9.1932
14 18.5.1933
15 21.6.1933
16 11.7.1933
17 10.8.1933
18 29.8.1933
19 22.9.1933
Danzig Report Nr. 64 - July - August - September - 1989, Page 26.
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