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SCOUT BOAT

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:56 pm

For the 125th Anniversary of the death of General Major Sir John Doyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_ ... st_Baronet , Guernsey used four stamps in 1984. Only one stamp has a maritime theme.

The 34p stamp depicts a “scout” or “look-out-boat”, the ship is nearing the Casquets light-house, on deck you can see the helmsman and some armed guards. The boat was loaned to the British Post Office to carry the mail between the Channel Islands and the U,K. during the French wars.

Owing to the infrequent sailings of the Post Office packets, various cutters, or scouts as they were called, were loaned to carry the mail. Each governor of the Islands had a scout for his dispatches during the war, as did the Commander in Chief of the British Naval Squadron at Jersey. The names of some of these vessels were the MARY (armed scout). BRITANNIA— Captain Naylor, BRILLIANT — Captain Court, SIR SYDNEY (armed scout), SIR WILLIAM CURTIS— Captain Batton, and RAPID— Captain White.

https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php ... efore_1815 Guernsey Post Office release.
Guernsey 1984 34p sg 331, scott306.
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