Le Fret (Pilot Boat) 1996 She is a Marine Service Vessel in the Port of Jersey. Built by Goodchild Marine Services in 1996. She is a 38 foot Pilot Boat. Le Fret's main role is transport for navigational maintenance and transport to outlying reefs. She also provides transport for official groups to R...

Argo Navis (or simply Argo) was a large constellation in the southern sky that has since been divided into three constellations. It represented the Argo, the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology. The abbreviation was "Arg" and the genitive was "Argus Navis". Se...

Boutre

Mayotte 2000,S.G.?, Scott: 133.

On the stamp depicted Royal Navy Landing Craft LCA-1377 carries American troops to a ship near Weymount in Southern England on June 1, 1944, during preparations for the Normandy invasion. British soldiers can be seen in the conning tower. For safety measures, U.S. Rangers remained consigned on board...

Luzzu

Malta 2002, S.G.?, Scott: 1101.

Kurenas (Fishing Boat) 16th-17th Century The Kurenas Fishing Boat (16-17th century) is flatbottomed sailboat, usually made of oaken planks, well suited to sailing on the shallow Kursiu ilanka (Kursiu Bay) and coastal waters of the Baltic. Flat-bottomed boats, whose draught and shape were the most su...

Gozo Boat

Malta 2002, S.G.?, Scott: 1101.

Argonaut (Submarine) 1897 The Argonaut was a class of submarines built by engineer Simon Lake (September 4, 1866 – June 23, 1945). He was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland...

La Speranza

Malta 1983, S.G.?, Scott: 639.

USS Emmons (DD-457/DMS-22) was a Gleaves-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral George F. Emmons (1811–1884). She took part in WW-II in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific wars, sank by a massive Kamikaze attack. In the June 2006 issue of the USNI’s Naval History there...

Empire MacKendrick

Bahamas 2009, S.G.?, Scott: 1286.

Reed Boat Ra II

See Topic: "Ra II (Thor Heyerdahl’s Reed Boat) 1970"

Barbados 1979, S.G.?, Scott: 489.

Heyerdahl (1914 – 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography. Thor Heyerdahl has long been interested in the history of early seafaring and has advocated that the oceans, far from being obstacles, could and can be safely crossed on relativel...

Walap (Canoe)

Marshall Islands 2003, S.G.?, Scott: 824b.

Spirit of Australia is a wooden speedboat built in a Sydney backyard, by Ken Warby, that broke and set the world water speed record on 8 October 1978. Ken Warby designed, built and drove Spirit of Australia to a phenomenal 511 km/h in the 1970s...and his world record stil stands today. Built in a Sy...