Maritime Topics on Stamps

September Stamps 2006

treasure ship




Hanse
Hanse
Sweden and Germany, a joint issue "650 Jahre Städtehanse", 650 years town Hanse. A cog and in the background the loading of a cog is depicted. In the Swedish stamp booklet there is the port of Visby and the town seal of Stockholm with a grocery of those days.


cruise liner
Gibraltar, a souvenir sheet with four stamps, "cruise ships". From left top the "Coral", beside her the "Legend of the Seas". Below the "Saga Ruby" and the "Costa Concordia".
Detailed information about this issue on the following internet page:
http://www.casb.co.uk/news/news.asp?step=4&NewsID=858


packet ships
Gibraltar, a set with four stamps "200th Anniversary o the Gibraltar Packet Agency". In the top row the HMP "Cornwallis" and HMP "Meteor", below HMP "Carteret" and HMP "Prince Regent".
Detailed information about this issue on the following internet page:
http://www.casb.co.uk/news/news.asp?step=4&NewsID=859


river vessels
Argentina, a se-tenant of four stamps "River Transport".
From left top we see the "Ciudad de Buenos Aires", beside her the "Lambare". Below the "Madrid" and the "Rawson".


Argentina
Argentina
Argentina, a stationery "75 aniversario Velero Oceanografico Dr. Bernardo Houssay". The motor-sailing ship "Dr. Bernardo Houssay" was built in 1931, named "Atlantis". She was the first research vessel of the WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). 1966 sold to the Argentinean Navy and renamed in "El Austral". 1996 CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas) took charge of the ship under the new name "Dr. Bernardo Houssay". Dr. Houssay, a Nobel price winner, was a former director of CONICET. Today the ship is under restoration for her new role as a research ship on the Argentinean rivers.
Argentina stamps and information by Mario Rosner.


brunel
Ascension, four se-tenants with each two stamps about famous jubilees.
From left top we see Brunel and his "Great Britain". Beside Columbus with the "Santa Maria". Below Darwin with the "Beagle" and Halley with his comet.



lighthouse
lighthouse
USA, a private issue personalised stamps with lighthouses. Left the lighthouse Garden Keys, Florida and right Point Loma, California.
Information and stamps by Stan and Margret Butcher.


Germany, a souvenir sheet with eight stamps of the transport company Ridas, "10th Baltic Sail 2006".
From left top to right below we see the "Concordia", "Lisa von Lübeck", "Three Hearts", "Hiorten", "Danmark", "Khersones", "Bryza H" and the "Kurenas".
sailing boats


flags
Germany, a souvenir sheet with eight stamps of the transport company Ridas, "10 years Baltic Sail 2006".
From left top to right below we see flags and markings of the Sail Gdansk, the Baltic Sail Helsingör, the Sail Karlskrona, the general Baltic Sail insignia, the Hanse Sail Rostock, the Baltic Sail with its ports, the Baltic Sail at Halmstad, the Baltic Sail at Travemünde, the Sea Festival at Klaipeda.



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


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