GULNIHAL

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Built as a steel hulled passenger vessel under yard No 299 by the yard of Earle at Hull for the Great Eastern Railway Co.
11 October 1886 launched as the CAMBRIDGE.
Tonnage 1.194 gross, dim. 280.5 x 31.0 x 15.2ft.
Powered by steam engines 275 hhp., twin shafts.

First used for the service across the North Sea from Harwich to Antwerp, later to Rotterdam and the Hook of Holland entailing night crossings.
12 December 1911 in collision with the destroyer HMS SALMON, killing two of the latter’s crew, but picking up the remainder.

November 1912 sold to the Anglo Ottoman Steamship Co., (managed by D. Lambriri), renamed KEMBRIC.
1913 Taken over by S. Cavoudidis.
During World War I in use as a hospital ship, she was renamed in 1914 GÜL-NIHAL and her owners were given as Administration de Navigation a Vapeur Ottomane (Turkish Government.)
Ten years later her name has changed to GÜLNIHAL, with ownership Turkiye Seyrisefain Idaresi.
Subsequently restyled in Denizyollari Idaresi, both antecedents of Turkish Maritime Lines.
1938 Removed from service.
First quarter of 1938 broken up at Istanbul

.Turkey 2001 300.000DLi sg?, scott?

Sources MARHS-L Ron Mapplebeck. A Century of North Sea Passenger Steamers by Ambrose Greenway. David Asprey.

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By Turkey between 1911 and 1918 inland compulsory tax stamps were issued for the Turkish Red Crescent, not knowing much about this stamps (or labels), maybe somebody can help.
The design is very crude, but the ship depict on it is the GÜLNIHAL and used by the Turkish Navy as a hospital ship.

Thanks to Myron P. Molnau President of Watercraft Philately who supplied the scans.

According Navicula the following stamps were issued

1911/12 10Pa
1916 100 Para a 10 Pa
1918 1 Ghr.