ENGLISH TWO-DECKER 1650
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:31 pm
This stamp issued by St Kitts Nevis Anguilla of 1970 shows an English war-ship, a two decker from 1650. The vessel is not identified but I think the design is taken from a painting.
A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery, so were not counted.
Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun Fifth rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships of the line, with the third-rate of seventy-four guns, or "seventy-four", being the archetype.
Source: Wikipedia
St Kitts Nevis Anguilla 1970 1c sg 207, scott (The painting shows a English two-decker painted by Willem van der Velde junior.)
A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery, so were not counted.
Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun Fifth rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships of the line, with the third-rate of seventy-four guns, or "seventy-four", being the archetype.
Source: Wikipedia
St Kitts Nevis Anguilla 1970 1c sg 207, scott (The painting shows a English two-decker painted by Willem van der Velde junior.)