Spain - Corunna, Gijon, Vigo, Cadiz

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/places.cgi" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/places.cgi"><U><B>Map Locations</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>courtesy of multimap.com</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi?place=&db=w3&scale=4000000&width=500&height=300&lon=-9&lat=43&zs=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi"><U><B>Corunna</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi?place=Gijon%2C+Asturias%2C+Spain&db=w3&scale=4000000&width=500&height=300&lon=-5.5&lat=43.5&zs=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi"><U><B>Gijon</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi?place=Vigo%2C+%2C+Spain&db=w3&scale=4000000&width=500&height=300&lon=-8.75&lat=42.25&zs=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi"><U><B>Vigo</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi?place=&db=w3&scale=1000000&width=500&height=300&lon=-6.25&lat=36.5&zs=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi"><U><B>Cadiz</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Packet Archives 16881850"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <B>Spain - Corunna, Gijon, Vigo, Cadiz</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Packet Routes"><U>Packet Routes</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portugal, Lisbon, Faro Oporto"><U>Portugal, Lisbon, Faro & Oporto</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mediterranean Gibraltar, Malta "><U>Mediterranean - Gibraltar, Malta +</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portugal: Madeira the Azores "><U>Portugal: Madeira & the Azores </U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Barbados, Jamaica Bahamas"><U>Barbados, Jamaica & Bahamas</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leeward Islands"><U>Leeward Islands</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trinidad Tobago"><U>Trinidad & Tobago</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pensacola Charlestown"><U>Pensacola & Charlestown</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Surinam"><U>Surinam</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id83.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guyana"><U>Guyana</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mexico"><U>Mexico</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Florida, Carolinas, Virginia"><U>Florida, Carolinas, Virginia</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="New York"><U>New York</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="N. 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However...i</B><B>n the late 1680's the growing estrangement between France and England finally gave way to war in 1689.  Postal communication to Spain and the Mediterranean, which had formerly gone through France, was interrupted.  The government decided to set up a packet service from Falmouth similar to that already in existence at </B><B>Harwich</B><B> for continental mails and at </B><B>Holyhead</B><B> for Irish mails.</B></div> <div> <B>Daniel Gwin was put in charge of the Packet station in 1689.  His main work appears to have been to manage the victualling of the packet boats.  From </B><B>1689-1698</B><B> there were two boats, the </B><I><B>Spanish Alliance</B></I><B> and the </B><I><B>Spanish Expedition</B></I><B>, carrying the mails between Falmouth and </B><I><B>The Groyne</B></I><B> (Corunna) in north Spain.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> M. E. Philbrick: - The old <I><B>Alliance </B></I>(sic), which had sailed since 1689 [under John Green], was rebuilt [in 1706] at a cost [to the Post Office] of £2,262.10.0.</div> <div> Capt. John Green to <I>New Allyance</I> 16/11/1706  &<I>  Mercury</I> 11/5/1708</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Expedition</B></I>   [<I>Expedição</I>]</div> <bR> <div> <B>1689 - 1702</B>     Hired contractor service (Edmund Dummer)</div> <bR> <div> Corunna, a.k.a. <I>Passages, </I></div> <div> Gijon     </div> <div> Vigo</div> <bR> <div> Cadiz ..... </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> ==================== <IMG SRC="0c546460.png" border=0 width="70" height="70" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">           Reference reading .........</div> <bR> <div> Nathan, S.<I>, The Message Carriers of Cadiz 1830-1860</I></div> <div> Spanish Philatelic Society Book Club No. 6.</div> <div> Published by the Spanish Philatelic Society, Brighton BN1 3HQ  (1976)</div> <bR> <div> Kirk, R.<I>, The Postal History of the P & O Service to the Peninsula</I></div> <div> Royal Philatelic Society, London (1987)  ISBN 0 900631 15 5   (116 pages)</div> </td> </tr></table></body>