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The vessel depicts on the Letters Patent Centenary stamp issued in 2008 by South Georgia and Southern Sandwich Island depicts the steamer CORONDA.
I have the World Ship Society book “From 70 North to 70 South” by Graeme Somner which has a photo on page 57 with the caption CORONDA at Leith Harbour, South Georgia, which is exact the same as the design on the stamp, so we can be sure the first CORONDA of the Christian Salvesen fleet is used for the design of the stamp.

Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 438 by W. Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, U.K. for the British & Colonial S.N. Co. Ltd. (managed by Bucknall Bross.), London.
28 March 1992 launched as the MANICA.
Tonnage 2.733 gross, 1.779 net, dim. 310 x 41 x 17ft.

Powered by a 3-cyl. triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by Central Marine Engineering Works, West Hartlepool, 279 nhp., speed 9.5 knots.
1899 Transferred to Bucknall Newphews, London and renamed CORONDA (I).
September 1908 sold to Christian Salvesen & Co. Leith, not renamed, used as a support vessel for the whaling station on South Georgia.
In 1909 she brought the first Magistrate James Innes Wilson to South Georgia.

13 March 1917 underway from the River Clyde to South Georgia with a general cargo, torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-81 in position 56 11N 13 04W 180 miles N.W. of Tory Island.
Nine men lost their live in this sinking.

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands 2008 £1.10 sg?, scott?


Source: Dictionary of Disasters at sea during the age of steam 1824-1962 by Charles Hocking. From 70 North to 70 South by Graeme Somner. Some web-sites.