Volume 15 , Issue 8

Ship Europa Summer of 1938

Back in 2002 we were sent an old postcard of the Ship Europa that our Uncle Bob McGill had taken a cruise on in the Summer of 1938 (July). It is amazing that years later people connect through a little postcard, and perhaps a passing connection of ancestors.

Barry at Sandy, Utah states, "I recently found this old postcard my Great Uncle Charles Pearl Rhoads of Kansas City sent my Grandmother (his sister Mae, Mrs. Ross Robison) when he was crossing the English Channel on the Ship Europa in the Summer of 1938. I was searching more about this Ship the Europa when I found your site (Uncle Bob's Journal - Aboard Ship. I thought you might find it interesting so I'm sending you a scanned version of the Front and Back of the card.

"It looks like they just missed each other by a month of maybe meeting on board according to the postmark. I too have a great deal of enjoyment researching my family's past. Feel free to include the picture on your site if you wish.

"I was just re-looking at the front of the card and the postmark there says July 25, 1938. They might have traveled over to Europe at the same time. Who knows how slow the postal system was then."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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