CAREENING SHIPS

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So far I have found three stamps which shows a ship careened.

The Antigua 15c stamp 1975 sg428 shows us a ship-of-the-line hove down in English Harbour, Antigua for cleaning and repair, not any information on the ship which is shown.

Cook Island 1984 48c shows us Cooks ENDEAVOUR beached and careened for repairs at Endeavour River, Northern Queensland, Australia after grounding on the Barrier Reef.

New Zealand 1959 2d sg772, also the careening of Captain Cook’s ship ENDEAVOUR at Ship Cove in the Queen Charlotte sound in 1769.

Wikipedia gives the following on Careening.
Careening (also known as "heaving down") is the practice of grounding a sailing vessel at high tide in order to expose one side of its hull for maintenance and repairs below the water line when the tide goes out.
Practice
The process could be assisted by securing a top halyard to a fixed object such as a tree or rock to pull the mast over as far as possible. Maintenance might include repairing damage caused by dry rot or cannon shot, tarring the exterior to reduce leakage, or removing biofouling organisms such as barnacles to increase the ship's speed. One exotic method was the ancient practice of beaching a ship on a shingle beach with the goal of using wave action and the shingle to scour the hull.
A beach favored for careening was called a careenage. Today, only small vessels are careened, while large vessels are placed in dry dock.
A related practice was a Parliamentary heel, in which the vessel was heeled over in deep water by shifting weight, such as ballast or guns, to one side. In this way the upper sides could be cleaned or repaired with minimal delay. Famously, HMS ROYAL GEORGE was lost while undergoing a Parliamentary heel in 1782. http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... f=2&t=9169

Pirates would often careen their ships because they had no access to dry-docks. A secluded bay would suffice for necessary repairs or hull cleaning, and such little “safe havens” could be found throughout the islands in the Caribbean and nearly around the world. One group of islands, Tres Marias, became popular when Francis Drake had sailed there in 1579 and quickly became a place for piracy.

The drawing shows the whaler JOSEPHINE careened in 1893, and most probably the last merchant hove down in America.

From Mr. Jung.
Barbuda 1975 15c sg218, scott?
Grenadines of St Vincent 1974 39c sg31, scott30.
Grenada Grenadines 1976 1c sg156, scott?
Solomon Islands 1999 $10 sgMS923, scott?
St Vincent 1971 1c sg330, scott?

Two more from Mr. Araignon:
Togo 1979 50f sg1336
Central African Empire 1978 sg578 (Central African Republic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Empire


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careening

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Barbados 1950 60c sg280, scott225 and 1953 60c sg299, scott245 which depict the schooner W.L.EDRICIA. careened.
Can not find anything on the schooner, the name is most probably not correct, there is a name on the stern of the vessel but not readable for me.