Maritime Topics on Stamps
2005   May Stamps
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Bahamas, a set with four stamps "Royal Bahamas Defence Force, 25th Anniversary". Among them these two maritime
stamps; left HMBS "Abaco", right HMBS "Bahamas". (HMBS - Her/His Majesty Bahamian Ship).
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Guernsey, a single stamp with a value of four pounds; the "Queen Mary 2" is depicted.
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Guernsey, a set with five stamps "Gastronomy". Among them these two stamps with lobster meal and a sailing boat and
a trawler in the background.
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Tanzania, a set with four stamps "Sceneries of Zanzibar". Among them the left stamp with a "Dhow at Beit Al Ajaib".
Another set with four stamps "Waterfalls and Landscapes". Among them the right stamp "Shore line of Zanzibar coast"
with an outrigger canoe.
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Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises, a single stamp with the trawler "Cap Horn".
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Solomon Islands, a souvenir sheet with ten stamps "The Route To Victory", among them these stamps with ships.
Top left "USS Lexington under air attack during the Battle of the Coral Sea 08.05.1942", below
"Tokyo Express nightly bombardments by Japanese Warships". In the middle top "US Forces land at Tulagi &
Guadalcanal virtually unopposed 07.08.1942". In the middle below "Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-109 sank after collision with
Japanese warship Amagiri, 02.08.1943". And right "HMAS Canberra sinking at Iron Bottom Sound 09.08.1942".
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Kiribati, a souvenir sheet with ten stamps "The Route To Victory", among them these stamps with ships.
Top left "Carlson Raid USS Argonaut & Nautilus land US Marines at Butaritari 16.08.1942', in the middle
"Admiral Pacific Fleet Chester W. Nimitz" and right "USS Liscome Bay sank by Japanese submarine I-175
on 24.11.1943." Left "US Forces Higgins Landing Craft approach Tarawa Red Beach 20.11.1943".
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Nauru, a souvenir sheet with ten stamps and a small souvenir sheet with one stamp "The Route To Victory",
among them these stamps with ships.
Top left "German raider Komet shells Nauru 27.12.1940", beside "French warship Le Triomphant
assists in evacuation of civilians 23.02.1942", top right "USS Paddle on station off Nauru 17.10.1943 to 09.11.1943".
Second row left "HMAS Diamantina arrives at Nauru 30.09.1945", beside "D-Day landings".
On the small souvenir sheet left "HMAS Manoora sinks Italian MV Romolo 12.06.1940".
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Guyana, a small souvenir sheet with four stamps "60th Anniversary Tribute, D-Day". Among them this stamp
"June 6th 1944, Operation Overlord begins".
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Sierra Leone, a souvenir sheet with eight stamps "D-Day, The Greatest Invasion". Top left an "US Light Cruiser", beside
"LST Landing Crafts, amphibious landing forces ....".
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Macau China, a souvenir sheet with one stamp "Ponte de Sai Van". Here You see only a part of the sheet with
the stamp and the freighter under the bridge.
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Guernsey, a se-tenant of two stamps "Liberation of Guernsey, 1945". Here the left stamp is depicted. Besides of
"King George VI" we see a lighthouse.
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Notice:
Many new stamps about "200th Anniversary Battle of Trafalgar (1805)" are issued.
'Maritime Topic on Stamps' will show them on the 'June' page.
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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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