Maritime Topics on Stamps,

August Stamps 2006

Brunel




Brunel
Columbus
Kiribati, a set with six se-tenants "Exploration and Innovation 2006".
Left "200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel", we see Brunel and the work with rivets on a hull.
Right "500th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus", depicted Columbus and his "Santa Maria".
The other four se-tenants show Darwin, Mozart, Edison and the airplane Concorde.


Brunel
Columbus
Nauru, a set with six se-tenants "Exploration and Innovation 2006".
Left "200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel", depicted Brunel, compass-card, railway-wheels and an anchor-chain.
Right "500th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus", depicted Columbus and a "Sea Astrolabe".
The other four se-tenants show Darwin, Mozart, Edison and Halley.


Brunel
Guernsey, a set with six stamps "I.K. Brunel Bicentenary".
On the stamps we see Brunel with mail bags and different motives around the "Great Western Railway". The vessel on all three stamps is the "Ibex", a mail boat, running for the Great Western Railway.


Spain, a souvenir sheet with one stamp "V Centenario De La Muerte De Cristobal Colon 1506-2006". We see Columbus in front of an old map of the 16th century.
Columbus


Columbus
Columbus
Solomon Islands, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp "500th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus".
In the upper row from left the "Nina", "Pinta", "Santa Maria", "Coat of Arms" and on the sheet Columbus with his fleet.


warships
India, a se-tenant of four stamps "President's Fleet Review Visakhapatnam". Left top the carrier R22 "Viraat", beside presumable the frigate F21 "Gomati". Left below the Coast Guard vessel "Samar", in the background survey ship Sandhayak class and right two submarines, in front S55 "Sindhugosh", in the background S44 "Shishumar".


Polynesie Francaise, a set with two stamps 'Washington Island' with this sailing ship. On the other stamp natives are depicted.
fullrigger


tanker
Seychelles, a set with seven stamps "30th Anniversary of Independence 1976 - 2006". Among them this stamp with the tanker "Seychelles Progress".


Bulgaria, a single stamp '125 anniversary of the navy university Wapzarov'.
mariner school


man of war
Bulgaria, a single stamp with the picture of a galley, remembering to the 25th September 1396. On this date the battle of Nikopolis happened. A Chritian crusader army was defeated by the Ottoman.


Ireland, a set with two stamps and a souvenir sheet with two stamps with the same topics of the set; "Rosslare - Fishguard 1906 - 2006". This means the ferry connection between Rosslare (Ireland) and Fishguard (Wales).
The two 48c stamps feature the SS St. Patrick, one of three ships which started on the route in 1906, and the Stena Lynx III which operates on the route today.
Eire


ferry
Mayotte, a single stamp "Les Amphidromes". A passenger and car ferry is depicted. Mayotte is an island northwest of Madagascar.


Eire
Pitcairn Island, a se-tenant of four stamps with a gutter, "Journey to Norfolk 1856 - 2006, 150th Anniversary, HM Queen Victoria approved the relocation of Pitcairners in 1856". The ship on the stamps is the frigate "Morayshire".


Turkey, a se-tenant of 10 stamps "125th anniversary of Kemal Atatürk". Among them this stamp with the steamer "Bandirma" in the background.
Atatürk


local craft
Wallis and Futuna, a single stamp "Mata Tai", with a local craft.


Ecuador, a single stamp "Balsa Manteña", a house boat / raft made of Balsa wood.
house boat


fisherman
Aruba, a set with three stamps about paintings. Among them this stamp "Mateo Hayde 1932 - 1998". This was the painter of the port scenery.


Saint Pierre et Miquelon, a single stamp "El Archipel au Senat", also with a painting. We see a rowboat and a lighthouse in the background.
local craft


treasure ship
Indonesia, a single stamp, issued in 2005 about the voyages of Zheng He. One of his huge treasure ships is depicted.


Palau sheet
Palau, a souvenir sheet with 40 stamps "World of Sea and Reef, a Philatelic Panorama". Only the top row of the sheet here is depicted with boats, raft and ship. On the other stamps the underwater world of a coral reef is shown.


solar lighthouse
New Zealand, a set with five stamps about renewable energies. Among them this "Solar Lighthouse Cape Reinga".


Poland, a se-tenant of four stamps "Latarnie Morskie", lighthouses. Left top "Stilo", beside "Krynica Morska". Below "Gaski" and "Niechorze".
lighthouses


lighthouse
Germany, the lighthouse series was continued with this two stamps about the towers of "Neuland" and "Hohe Weg".



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


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