BERENDRECHT LOCK and containership
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:12 pm
In the last Log Book http://shipstampsociety.com/mayjune-logbook-published/ a Belgium collector asked for the identification on the Belgium stamp issued in 1990 sg 3027 which is given that the ore carrier MAIN ORE is depict. The stamp shows us a container vessel.
Watercraft Philately March/April 1991 page 61 gives:
Mr. Andre Laffut writes that the container ship on the Belgium stamp scott1353 issued to commemorate the opening of the Berendrecht lock, Antwerp is the artist conception and is not identifiable.
The lock is 500 m long between the gates, 68 m wide and 13.5 m deep, the world’s largest at the time of its completion.
The first ship to enter the lock was the bulk carrier MAIN ORE, obviously not the ship on the stamp.
More info on the lock is given on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berendrecht_Lock
Belgium 1990 10F sg3027, scott1353.
Watercraft Philately March/April 1991 page 61 gives:
Mr. Andre Laffut writes that the container ship on the Belgium stamp scott1353 issued to commemorate the opening of the Berendrecht lock, Antwerp is the artist conception and is not identifiable.
The lock is 500 m long between the gates, 68 m wide and 13.5 m deep, the world’s largest at the time of its completion.
The first ship to enter the lock was the bulk carrier MAIN ORE, obviously not the ship on the stamp.
More info on the lock is given on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berendrecht_Lock
Belgium 1990 10F sg3027, scott1353.