St. Helena, a set with six stamps and a souvenir sheet with two stamps, "200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar (1805 - 2005)".
From left: "HMS Bellerophon (centre) in action against the Aigle and Monarca, British 18 Pdr Naval Pattern Cannon, HMS Victory". In the second row from left: "First Lieutenant RN 1805, HMS Conquerer, Vice Admiral Nelson". RN steht wohl für Royal Navy.
	On the souvenir sheet: "Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood is depicted here with his flagship HMS Royal Sovereign, which is shown in action against the Spanish ship Santa Ana".

British Indian Ocean Territory, a set with six stamps and a souvenir sheet with two stamps, "200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar (1805 - 2005)".
From left: "HMS Phoebe, HMS Harrier, Tower Sea Service Pistol 1796, Boatswain RN 1805, Vice Admiral Nelson". To this set belongs a stamp of the Victory. The stamp has the same picture withn the Victory stamp of St. Helena, see above.
	On the souvenir sheet: "During Rear-Admirals Dumanoir's counter attack, the 80 gun Spanish ship Neptuno was cut off from the rest of the squadron by the 74 gun ships HMS Minotaur (left) and HMS Spartiate (right)".

St. Kitts, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp, "200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar (1805)". From left: "Montagne, San Jose, Imperieuse, San Nicolas". On the souvenir sheet: "British Navy gun crew, aboard the Victory, in the midst of battle".

	Palau, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp, "The Battle of Trafalgar 1805 - 2005".
On the souvenir sheet we see "Horatio Nelson 1753 -1805", the stamp shows "Nelson wounded during the Battle of Trafalgar". The 37 cent stamp: "This painting, by Thomas Luny (1759 - 1835) shows the Battle of Trafalgar at the height of the action". The 55 cent stamp: "The shot that killed Nelson during the Batlle of Trafalgar was fired from the French ship Redaoubtable, which is pictured here at the moment of her surrender".

The 80 cent stamp: "Nelson's flagship Victory firing upon the French ship Redoubtable at Trafalgar". The 1$ stamp: "This painting shows the Victory nearing home in January of 1806, ... by J.M.W. Turner (1775 - 1851)".

	Micronesia, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp, "The Battle of Trafalgar 1805 - 2005".
On the souvenir sheet "Admiral Lord Collingwood 1758 -1810", the stamp shows "The death of Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar". Here only the centre of the souvenir shett is depicted. The 37 cent stamp: "This painting shows the evening of the Battle of Trafalgar, painted by W.J. Huggins (1781 - 1845)". The 55 cent stamp: "This painting by George Arnauld, shows the blowing up of the French flagship L'Orient". Notice: The 'Orient' exploded during the battle of Aboukir (1798), not at Trafalgar!

The 80 cent stamp: "This painting shows the Spanish flagship Santissima Trinidad, surrendering to two English ships". The 1$ stamp: "Spanish ship attacked by the 'Captain', flying Nelsons pennant as a Commodore, from a painting by Sir William Allen".

	Liberia, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp, "The Battle of Trafalgar 1805 - 2005".
On the souvenir sheet "Horatio Nelson 1753 -1805", on the stamp "Nelson is shot by a sniper on the deck of HMS Victory". The 10$ stamp: "Nelson ships, the ships in this painting by Nicolas Pocock are the Agamemnon, th Captain, the Vanguard, the Elephant and the Victory; painted in 1908". The 20$ stamp: "The fighting Temeraire, 1838 painting by J.M.W. Turner".

The 40$ stamp: "Th Santissima Trinidad, the pride of the Spanish Fleet with 130 guns along a 190 feet hull was the largest in the world in her time, and was captured by Nelson in the Battle of Trafalgar 1805." The 50$ stamp: "Victory towed into Gibraltar, painted by Clarkson Stanfield in 1853, long after Trafalgar".

Notice: You find more stamps and souvenir sheets about the battle of Trafalgar on my March stamp page, click on this line, and on my June page, click on this line!.

Liberia, a souvenir sheet with four stamps "Jules Verne Fantastic Voyages". On this four stamps scenes of the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" are depicted.

St. Kitts, a souvenir sheet with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp, "100th Anniversary of the Death of Jules Verne". On the four stamps we see "Jules Verne, Sea Monster Attack, Rouquarol, Modern Aqualung". On the two stamps below there are divers in ancient and new diving-suits. On the single stamp right "Atomic Submarine", the Nautilus.

Tanzania, a souvenir sheet with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp, "Jules Verne, Visions and Adventures at Sea". On the four stamps we see pictures of his novels "Invasion of the Sea (1905), The Floating Island (1896), A floating City (1874), Dick Sands or the Boy Captain (1879)". On the single stamp "Around the World in 80 Days (1873)". Some titles and the named years are in conflict.

	Greenland, a set with four stamps which belongs to the series "Ships in Greenlandic Waters over 1000 Years". From left top the Danish Royal Yacht "Dannebrog", the Arctic freighter "Kista Arctica", the passenger liner "Sarpik Ittuk" and the patrol boat "Triton".

Norway, a set with thre stamps, Norwegian sail training ships. From left the "Christian Radich", the "Sørlandet" and the "Statsraad Lehmkuhl".

Norfolk Islands, a set with three stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp, "Pacific Explorers".

On the stamp in the souvenir sheet a map of the Pazific is depicted. The single stamps are named with "Polynesian Explorers, Magellan, Captain Cook".

Poland, a se-tenant of four stamps about "Extreme Sports". Among them this stamp of people in rubber-dinghies:

And now we have the Battle of the Atlantic and the D-Day in the ...xth continuation: Canada, a single stamp, "Battle of the Atlantic".

Bequia Grenadines of St. Vincent, a souvenir sheet with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp, "The Route to Victory, Sinking of the Bismarck". Left the battleship "Bismarck".

On the stamps from left top: "The route to victory, aircraft make ready for flight, the 'Bismarck' getting pounded by British Navy, the 'Bismarck' goes down". If You want to see my Bismarck page, click on this line.

Tanzania, a souvenir sheet with six stamps (without a maritime topic, only a map, aircrafts and heroes) and a souvenir sheet with one stamp "60th Anniversary of D-Day". The stamp shows the "Battle for Fox Green Beach, D-Day Normandy".

Gambia, a souvenir sheet with one stamp "The Route to Victory, D-Day June 6th 1944". The stamps shows "Royal Navy Beach Party ashore Gold Beach".

Germany, lighthouse series, which started last year, continues now with this two stamps. Left the lighthouse Brunsbüttel Mole 1, right the tower of Westerheversand.

To show some more stamps and/or whole souvenir-sheets the pictures are high compressed, so accuracy goes down.

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