Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628

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Anatol
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Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628

Post by Anatol » Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:19 pm

On the AREA of the SMALL SHEET(MS) depicted warship Swedish"Wasa" 1628.
Vasa (or Wasa) is a Swedish warship built 1626-1628. The ship foundered and sank after sailing less than a nautical mile (ca 2 km) into its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. It fell into obscurity after most of its valuable bronze cannon were salvaged in the 17th century. After it was located again in the late 1950s in a busy shipping lane just outside the Stockholm harbor, it was salvaged with a largely intact hull in 1961. It was housed in a temporary museum called Wasavarvet ("The Wasa Shipyard") until 1987 and then moved to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. The ship is one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions and has been seen by over 29 million visitors since 1961. Vasa has since its recovery become a widely recognized symbol of the Swedish "great power period". It is today also a de facto standard in the media and among Swedes for evaluating the historical importance of shipwrecks.
Republique Democratique du Congo 2006 600FG SG?
Source : From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Source: forum.woodenboat.com / showthread.php? 80,245-Tall-Ships
The STAMP 600FG depicts copy of the painting Derek Gardner: « The 28-gun Frigat Boreas.Captain Horatio Nelson.1787». To look at the article: The Frigat Boreas and H. Nelson.1787.
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Archie
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Re: Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628

Post by Archie » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:49 am

The Vasa sank within one nautical mile of the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 before she even left the Stockholm archipelago...

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Re: Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:50 pm

Turks & Caicos Islands 1996 60c sg1395, scott1194d
Hungary 1986 2fo sg3707, scott?
Nicaragua 1996 2.50 cor sg?, scott2150g
Gambia 2016 45D sg?, scott?

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... Vasa#p8591
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Anatol
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Re: Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628

Post by Anatol » Wed Mar 23, 2016 7:51 pm

Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628. The design stamp is made after painting of Cornelis de Vries«Vasa 1626г».
Republique Thad 2011;250f;SG?
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Anatol
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Re: Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628

Post by Anatol » Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:43 pm

Vasa 1628. Djibouti 2015;4000f.
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Anatol
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Re: Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628

Post by Anatol » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:36 pm

Burundi 2017; 1250f.
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Anatol
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Re: Vasa (ship) Swedish 1628

Post by Anatol » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:28 pm

Somalia 2017;450Sl.Sh.
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