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- Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:42 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: TRANS ASEAN
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TRANS ASEAN
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11415/tmp12C-200x128.jpg The first vessel berthed in the port of Hai Phong is the cargo vessel TRANS ASEAN, the other vessels are not yet identified. Built under yard No 105 by Ebin S.A. Industria Nav., Niteroi, Brazil for Nav. Marinave S.A. Brazil. 11...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:27 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: HOBART HMAS 1936.
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- Views: 1142
HOBART HMAS 1936.
The stamp issued by the Solomon Islands for the 50th Anniversary of Guadalcanal landings depict as given an Australian Navy Cruiser, at that time during World War II. Australia had three two funnel cruisers the HOBART, PERTH and SYDNEY only the HOBART took part in battles around the Solomon Islands,...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:17 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: ISABELLA yacht
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- Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:14 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: FUBBS yacht
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- Views: 1570
FUBBS yacht
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11404/tmp123-200x138.jpg The yacht on this stamp is identified as FUBBS and the ISABELLA is not depicted as given on the stamp. Built by Phineas Pett at Greenwich in 1682 as a Royal Yacht for King Charles II. Launched as the FUBBS, named after the pet ...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:48 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Antoinette
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2360
Antoinette
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11400/F1920-200x121.jpg The French marine artist, Roger Chapelet, has had a number of his paintings featured on his country's stamps, the latest recently issued being the Cape Horner Antoinette According to Lloyd's Register, the Antoinette was a 4-mast...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:57 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Gilbert and Ellice Is canoes.
- Replies: 15
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Gilbert and Ellice Is canoes.
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11389/SG49-200x151.jpg http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11389/SG53-200x133.jpg http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11389/SG3-200x132.jpg The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a British protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 ...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:37 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Victoria (Barque)
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- Views: 1913
Victoria (Barque)
Navicula gives for this bark: She is designed after a painting of Eduard Adam (1847-1929) but reverse showed on the stamp, the painting is in the Nat. Maritime Museum, Greenwich. The owner’s flag has the letters R P & Co., the signal flags, given on the painting, but not visible on the stamp N M...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:47 am
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Hanna (1775)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2017
Hanna (1775)
The Schooner Hannah was the first armed American naval vessel of the American Revolution and is claimed to be the founding vessel of the United States Navy. She was owned by John Glover's in-laws of Marblehead, Massachusetts and was named for his wife, Hannah Glover. The crew was drawn largely from ...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:12 am
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Cassard Survey ship 1841
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- Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:11 am
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Belle-Poule and Cassard
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- Views: 1380
Belle-Poule and Cassard
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11372/SP%20452-200x133.jpg On the 15f, stamp is the portrait of Prince de Joinville, one of the sons of King Louis-Phillipe. He was a brilliant naval officer and was responsible for the building of the first ship-of-the-line with an engine, at a time w...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:08 am
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Rene De Chateaubriand
- Replies: 1
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Rene De Chateaubriand
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11368/SP%20451-200x133.jpg St. Pierre and Miquelon issued a set of three stamps in 1968. The portraits are good, but no one could say that about the ships. In fact I should imagine they are merely the artist's impression of how they might have looked. ...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:02 am
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: General Brown
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- Views: 1877
General Brown
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11364/SG1211-200x155.jpg To commemorate the Temex 1967 Exhibition, the Argentina Post Office issued the attractive 20 pesos stamp showing the painting by the marine artist F. Biggeri of the first Argentine Naval School-ship General Brown. She was built...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:52 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Panama Maru
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2662
Panama Maru
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11359/panama%20maru-200x130.jpg http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11359/SG376-200x128.jpg To commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence, the Togolaise Republic issued a set of four Stamps, the 85 F. value showin...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:48 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Maroc
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1223
Maroc
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11355/SG191-200x137.jpg The 40f Morocco Stamp, clearly shows the name Maroc on the ship's bows. This name was given to the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique liner Ville de Marseille for a short period while on the Company's service between France and ...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:32 pm
- Forum: Ship Stamps Collection
- Topic: Fireball dinghy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1875
Fireball dinghy
This article is interesting in that it was written by Ernest Argyle in Sea Breezes 1969. Of course the "Fireball" is still going strong and a very popular dinghy. Read on............... The third South Pacific Games are this year (1969) being held in Port Moresby, in the Territory of Papua...