In the war against the Ottoman Empire, Montenegro occupied Bar after a long struggle and gained access to the sea in 1878.This important historical event is depicted in Ivan Žmirić's painting "The Wedding Between Montenegro and the Sea", a version of which is kept in Kotor's Maritime Museu...

Soleil-Royal was a ship in the French Navy, the third ship of that name. She was the first 80-gun two-decker to use the 24-pounder long gun on her second battery, giving her considerable firepower for the time and allowing her to challenge three-deckers. Her name Soleil-Royal, honouring the French c...

Commodore William Bainbridge (May 7, 1774 – July 27, 1833) was a United States Navy officer. During his long career in the young American navy he served under six presidents beginning with John Adams and is notable for his many victories at sea. He commanded several famous naval ships, including USS...

"Sizopol" is a 60-gun sailing frigate of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Empire. Participant of the Crimean War. Named in memory of the capture of the Turkish fortress of Sozopol on February 18, 1829 by a detachment of ships under the command of Rear Admiral M. N. Kumani. The frigate &q...

The Aemilia was the flagship of Lieutenant-Admiraal Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp during part of the Eighty Years' War. She was a Dutch 46-gun (later increased in 1637 to 57-gun) ship of the line. Built by Jan Salomonszoon van den Tempel for the Admiralty of Rotterdam in 1632, the ship was the largest ...

Commodore Stephen Decatur Jr. (January 5, 1779 – March 22, 1820) was a United States Navy officer. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in Worcester County. His father, Stephen Decatur Sr., was a commodore in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War; he brought the younger ...

Moulay Sulaiman Abul-Rabi bin Mohammed (1766-1822) - Sultan of Morocco in 1792-1822 from the Alawite dynasty. Mawlay Sulayman bin Mohammed born on 28 June 1766 in Tafilalt and died on 28 November 1822 in Marrakesh, was a Sultan of Morocco from 1792 to 1822, as a ruler of the 'Alawi dynasty. He was p...

Sir Charles John Napier (6 March 1786 – 6 November 1860) was a British naval figure who fought in the Crimean War and was an admiral (6 March 1858). He graduated from the Royal High School, Edinburgh. On 1 November 1799, he volunteered for the sloop Martin, which was cruising in the North Sea. He se...

Yusuf Karamanli), (1766–1838) was the longest-reigning Pasha of the Karamanli dynasty of Ottoman Tripolitania (in present-day Libya). He is noted for his role in the Barbary Wars against the United States. Born in Tripoli in 1766, Karamanli, a member of the Karamanli dynasty (named after the Karaman...

Marie Henri Gautier Daniel de Rigny was born on February 2, 1782 in Toul , France . At the age of fifteen, in 1797, he entered the naval service. In 1809 he became a lieutenant . In 1816 - a captain . In 1822-1825, he was the head of the French squadron in the Levant . From 1825, he was a rear admir...

USS Vincennes, a 703-ton Boston class sloop of war, was built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York. Commissioned in August 1826, she sailed to the Pacific by way of Cape Horn and cruised extensively in that ocean until 1830. Her return voyage was made by way of China, the Philippines, the Indian Ocea...

The stamp design is based on Thomas Whitcombe's painting "HMS Galatea 1794". The year 1810 on the stamp is incorrect.

HMS Galatea was a fifth-rate 32-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy that George Parsons built at Bursledon and launched in 1794. Before she was broken up in 1809 she captured numerous prizes and participated in a number of actions, first in the Channel and off Ireland (1794–1803), and then...

HDMS Najaden (Danish: "The Naiad") was a frigate of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy, which she served from 1796 until the British captured her in 1807. While in Dano-Norwegian service she participated in an action at Tripoli, North Africa. She served the Royal Navy as the fifth rate HMS Nyad...

Кüçük Hüseyin Pasha (1757 – 7 December 1803), also known as Tayazade Damat Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, was an Ottoman statesman and admiral who was Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy) from 11 March 1792 to 7 December 1803. He was a damat ("bridegroom") to the Ottoman dynasty after h...