JAPANESE UTILITY BOAT

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JAPANESE UTILITY BOAT

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:58 pm

The miniature sheet issued by Palau in 1990 for the Stamp World London ’90 shows us in the margin a Utility Boat used by the Japanese during World War II in Palau waters and a Catalina flying-boat the T.O.A. PBY-5A on Koror Island on 1 July 1951.
The Australian Stamp Monthly of July 1990 gives on the Utility Boat:
She was one of the hundreds operated by the Japanese during their administrative period in Palau, this boa was used as a fishing trawler, a small cargo vessel, a passenger boat, a troop transport, a mailboat, a tugboat and even occasionally to drop depth charges during the war.
The boat was used by the Japanese Army and Navy, as well by the civilian Nanyo administration. It was built to somewhat standard plans in the home islands and in most Japanese occupied territories. Many of this boats survived WW II and after the war confiscated by the U.S. Navy, and then sold or given to the locals.
In 1990 there were still some in use.

The T.O.A PBY-5A flying boat is landed on the water, and then she fall under the shipping rules as a watercraft. More on the type is given: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina

Palau 1990, $1, sgMS?, scott 236.
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