After Mr.Jean-Louis Araigon pointed out that the vessel depict was the ARGOS GEORGIA, Peter Crichton wrote there are differences between the ship on the stamp and the ARGOS GEORGIA and he has the trawler identified as the ARGOS FROYANES a ship of the same company, and I agree.
Built as a longliner fishing vessel, her hull built under yard No ? by AS Rigas Kugu Buvetavo shipyard in Riga, Latvia for Frøyanes AS, (Ervik Havfisk Holding) Stadlandet, Norway.
Launched as FROYANES.
Tonnage 1,352 grt, 405 nrt, 215 dwt. Dim. 48.87 x 11.0 x 8.6m, length bpp. 42.9m, draught 5.15m.
Towed to the yard of Solstrand in Tomrefjord for outfitting, yard No 72.
Powered diesel electric by two Caterpillar 3508B diesels, 1,298 hp (968 kW), speed 13.5 knots.
Bunker capacity 320 m³.
Cargo: reefer capacity 800 m³.
Crew 25
October 2001 completed.
She was the first longliner fitted out diesel-electric.
First used for fishing in the Barents Sea during the summer and in the Northerly winter she was transferred to the Ross Sae in the Antarctic to fish for toothfish.
2007 Transferred to British flag and registry, renamed in ARGOS FROYANES registered in Jamestown, St Helena Island.
She is now fishing the whole year for toothfish in the Antarctic in the waters of the Ross Sea and around South Georgia Island.
2013 In service. Managed by Argos Froyanes Ltd. U.K. Imo No 9249398.
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands 2008 50p sg?, scott?
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz and various other web-sites
This video shows how a longliner works she is a more recent vessel, not the ARGOS FROYANES on the stamp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHT9T9QphxY