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    Maritime Topics on Stamps
2005   March Stamps, Part 1
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Because of the big number of stamps and / or souvenir sheets we have two pages, part one and part two.
At the end of this page You can call the second part.
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Thailand, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with the same four stamps with the same pictures and same values
'local crafts'. Right top a 'Thai Junk', left middle a 'Packet Boat', right below a 'Krachaeng Boat'
and left below a 'Sampan Boat'.
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Uruguay, a single stamp, '175 Anos Prefectura Nacional Naval', 175th anniversary of the coast guard with a 'gunboat'.
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Sierra Leone, a set with six stamps and a small souvenir sheet with one stamp 'Passengerliners'.
In this row from left the 'Paris', the 'Statendam' and the 'Stavangerfjord'.
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In this row from left the 'Campania', the 'Drottningholm' and the 'Lusitania'.
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And here the last winner of the 'Blue Riband', the 'United States'.
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New Zealand, a set with six stamps about the three help- and rescue organizations Rotary, Lions Club and YMCA.
Here one maritime stamp with boy scouts of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association).
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Thailand, a se-tenant of 20 stamps 'Unseen Thailand'. Among them this artifice 'Kolae Boat'.
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Congo,a souvenir sheet with four stamps and five vignettes about 'Jules Verne', 100th anniversary of his death.
Here only the first row of the sheet with the maritime pictures. On the left there is a sailing ship with course to the
moon. Right the submarine 'Nautilus' is fighting with a giant octopus.
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Grenada, a souvenir sheet with six stamps 'Year of Eco Tourism of the United Nations'.
Among them this maritime stamp with sailing boats.
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Russia, a set with six stamps 'Russian Regions'. Here three maritime stamps. Left we see in the background
a bay with a merchant ship, it is the Taimyr Autonomous Region.
In the middle a research ship (?) in the Chukotski Autonomous Region. Right the figurehead at a monument at
St. Petersburg in the Tver Region. See the internet page
http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/russia/
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Canada, a set of five se-tenent definitive flag stamps in a booklet, spotlight different land and cityscapes from
various regions of Canada. Among them this ferry.
You find information about then whole set under
http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/collecting/
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Spain, a single stamp 'Bicentenario de la real expedicion de la Vacuna de la Viruela',
Bicentennial of the real expedition of the Vaccine of the Smallpox.
In 1804 Thaddäus Haenke (1761 - 1816) did the first vaccinations against smallpox in todays Bolivia.
Is this interpretation ok? Please write an email to
email:   webmail@seemotive.de  
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Iceland, a single stamp, 'Franski spitalinn ... 1904', the French hospital which started working in 1904;
in front of it a sailing boat. You find a detail text on this Iceland page
https://www.postur.is/cgi-bin/hsrun/Distributed/Postur/,
then click 'Issues Year 2004', then 'further informations'.
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British Antarctic Territory, a set with three stamps about the three ships named 'Endurance'.
Left Shackleton's expedition ship 'Endurance' (1914 - 1915) in the pack-ice, in the middle the weather and ice-patrol ship
HMS 'Endurance' (1968 - 1990) ex 'Anita Dan' and right the icebreaker HMS Endurance (1991 up to today)
ex 'Polar Circle'.
Internet informations at http://www.falklands.gov.fk/pb/bat/endurance.htm
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Jersey, a set with five stamps 'Search and Rescue'. Here the three maritime stamps.
Left a 'Burby helicopter' with a rescue boat, in the middle 'beach lifeguard service - surf rescue', and
right 'fire rescue inflatable'.
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Føroyar, a souvenir sheet with three stamps 'Gerandisdagurin i vikingaøld',
everyday life in the Viking age. Here only the right stamp with two boats and a Viking ship.
On the two other stamps there are working farmers and animals depicted.
Internet information at
http://www.stamps.fo/misc/Stamp_of_the_Year/en/arsprogram05.htm
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Sao Tome e Principe, a se-tenant with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp 'Os Grandes Navegadores',
our great navigators. In the se-tenant left top Fernando Magellan, beside him Chistoforo Columbus,
left bottom Amerigo Vespucci, beside him Vasco da Gama. In the souvenir sheet again Fernando Magellan is depicted.
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To show some more stamps and/or whole souvenir-sheets the pictures are high
compressed, so accuracy goes down.
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