In 1990 the Brazilian Post issued a single stamp for the 100th Anniversary of the Lloyd Brasileiro.
The company was already founded on 19 February 1894 and was a state owned company first used ships on the rivers and coastal waters of Brazil, later extended also in deep sea services to America, Europe and Mediterranean.
When the Brazilian Government privatized the company she was taken over or merged with other companies.
In October 1997 Lloyd Brasileiro was dissolved.
The stamp shows two ships a sailing vessel with the Lloyd Brasileiro flag in the mizzen mast and a modern gearless 5 hatch bulker, most probably one of the ships of the company from around 1990. I could not find a match for the bulker.
The sailing vessel is identified as the ALMIRANTE SALDANHA see photo on http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/D-Ships ... l1885.html
Built as iron full-rigged sailing ship under yard No 548 by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co., Jarrow-on-Tyne for the Globe Shipping Co. (Messrs Chas. G. Dunn & Co., Liverpool).
13 June 1885 launched as the DOVENBY HALL. She was christened by Miss Cunningham.
Tonnage 2,069 grt, dim. 85.3 x 12.2 x 7.38m
August 1885 completed.
Of her early history I could not find much, only that she was sailing in the Hall Line, this line sailed mainly to India, Australia and the west coast of America.
One of the first captains who sailed on her was Captain David Bailey who was a bully; Basil Lubbock gives in “The Last of the Windjammers”:
He was a terrible brute with an uncontrollable temper a ready fist and vilely blasphemous tongue.
He was murdered by his coloured steward (Charles Arthur from Barbados) on the passage home from San Francisco in 1888.
At the trial both Bailey’s wife and daughter testified that they could not live with him, and the steward get off with a life sentence.
1889 Was she under command of Captain Kilvert.
1902 Sold to J.F.Arens, Bremen, renamed in SYLFIDE.
1907 Sold to E.C. Schramm & Co., Bremen renamed in HENRIETTE.
10 December 1909 sold to August. Bolten, Wm Miller’s Nachf., Hamburg, not renamed.
1913 Sold to Vinnen Gebrüder GmbH, Hamburg. Used in the nitrate trade from the west coast of South America to Europe.
1917 Requisitioned by the Brazilian Government and renamed MEARIM, when not more further use for her she was sold in 1921 to Lloyd Brasileiro, renamed ALMIRANTE SALDANHA and used as a cargo carrying training ship for future officers of the company. Homeport Rio de Janeiro.
May 1928 reduced to a hulk. Fate unknown.
Brasil 1990 3cz sg 2406, scott2234.
Source: http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships ... 1885).html and various other web-sites.