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GUGLIELMO MARCONI

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:06 pm

Monaco issued in 1974 a single stamp for the 100th birthday of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), which shows an image of him, a drawing of a radio sender and receiver sketch and two warships.
Log Book Volume 9 page 28 gives maybe it is the Italian cruiser CARLO ALBERTO which was used in tests by Marconi, she is the ship in the foreground.
Navicula (the German sister ship stamp club), gives the ship in the background is one of the French Guepard class destroyers.
Comparing this with photos of the ships it looks if she are the ships as given, but I am sure this ships have never been sailing together, the CARLO ALBERTO was used by Marconi but it is doubtful that one of the Guepard class has been used by Marconi. The first of this class was built in 1928, while the CARLO ALBERTO was stricken from the Italian navy list on 12 June 1920.
The only two ships used in test at sea by Marconi was in March 1914 when the first experimental wireless telephony test on the high seas was carried out by the Italian warships REGINA ELENA and NAPOLI, but photos of the ships are quite different with the ships on the stamp. Also the ships were at that moment 45 miles apart when the test were carried out and not visible by another.
So the two ships are still a mystery and UFO’s

Bjoern Moritz has an interesting site “Wireless Telegraphy on sea” http://www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/funker.htm

Monaco 1974 0.40f sg1116, scott?
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