The inscription on the stamp gives CAP HORNIER 1910, and that means it is a Cape Horn sailing vessels of 1910. The info bulletin of the post gives that the name represents a class of sailing ships which rounded Cape Horn, the southern point of South America.
More info on ships on stamps and Cape Horn is given http://web.me.com/myronpm/Topics/html/kaphoorn.htm
It is also given that the ship depict on the stamp most probably is the French barque LOIRE.
Built as a steel hulled four mast barque by Chantiers de La Loire, Nantes for A.D. Bordes & Fils, Dunkirk, France.
08 December 1896 launched as the LOIRE. She was one of the Bounty ships of France.
Tonnage 2,969 gross, 2,685 net., dim. 97.9 (bpp) x 13.7 x 7.7m.
Two decks.
1897 She made her fastest passage from Portland to Iquique in 66 days.
1898 An other good passage was from Iquique to Prawle Point, south Devon, U.K. in 75 days.
But she is remembered more as the ship which saved the crew of the British full rigger DALGONAR in October 1913.
01 October 1913 the LOIRE left Iquique for Dover for orders under command of Capt. Michel Jaffré. On 10 October during the night the crew saw rockets and blue lights, when daybreak came they saw the partly dismasted and capsized DALGONAR of Liverpool.
When they observed life on board the DALGONAR, Capt. Jaffré hove to for a rescue attempt, but the weather was too bad to lower a boat.
The LOIRE stood by for three days in the very high and wild seas, and they lost a few times sight of the wreck.
On the 13th the crew of the LOIRE when the weather had subsided to a gale lowered a boat with the first mate Yvis Cadic and 8 oarsmen in it.
To make contact with the DALGONAR was not easy, the boat was several times swept away, after great difficulty (the dALGONAR was on her side) which took the whole day they rescued 13 men, later an other 13 were rescued.
The rescue took place in a position given as 26S and 87W.
Captain Isbister and three sailors of the DALGONAR were before already lost.
The DALGONAR did not sink but after drifting 4000 to 5000 miles the ship stranded on Mopihaa Island one of the Society Group many months later.
The first mate Cadic who was already an old men did not recover from the rescue; he died quietly homeward- bound, off the Horn.
The LOIRE arrived at Dunkirk after a passage of 96 days.
1923 She was sold to Italian shipbreakers.
Penrhyn Island 1981 $1 sg204, scott?. 1984 96c sg351, scott?
Source: The Bounty Ships of France by Villiers and Picard. The Liverpool Windjammers by John Richardson.
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