Maritime Topics on Stamps August / September stamps 2012
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Falkland Islands, a set with four stamps "1912, the Loss of the Oravia".
1912 the ship ran aground at Port Stanley and sank.
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Isle of Man, a set with six stamps "Harbour Lighthouses".
We see the "outer harbour at Castletown, the Battery Pier at Douglas,
the harbour at Laxey, Peel harbour, the harbour entrance at Ramsey and
the harbour at Port St Mary".
Jersey, a set with four stamps, among them the lighthouse La Corbière.
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Falkland Island, a set with six stamps of buildings, penguins and a wind power plant.
Among them tis stamp with a view on a port with a feeder ship during loading or discharging.
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Lundy, a set with five stamps with common island views.
Among them these stamps "Lobster Fishing 1890" and "The new Jetty 1999".
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Burundi, a souvenir sheet with one stamp "Les Voiliers", sailing ships.
A Viking boat is depicted.
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USA, a set of two stamps about the battle of New Orleans and a single stamp with the USS "Constitution".
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France, a single stamp with the Pointe Saint-Mathieu and a lighthouse.
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Eire, a single stamp and a souvenir sheet about the Volvo Ocean Race.
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Croatia, a set with three stamps lighthouses. The names are cognizable on the stamps.
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Lithuania, a single stamp, 760th anniversary of Klaipeda with a lighthouse.
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Burundi, two souvenir sheets 500. anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci.
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Ecuador, a souvenir sheet with seven stamps about sightseeing at Guayaquil.
Among them this port stamp.
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Jamaica, a set with four stamps, lighthouses.
We see Galina, Morant Point, Negril and Lovers Leap Lighthouse.
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New Zealand, a souvenir sheet with 20 stamps "Tiki Tour". Among them there are several
maritime motifs, right two of them enlarged.
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Thailand, a set of four stamps, illustrating the main missions of the Ministry of
Transport which include road, water, air and express way together with its centenary logo.
On one stamp we see a container vessel of the Pacific International Lines.
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Malta, 11 sheets with 8 stamps in each sheet depicting 88 different ships,
commemorating the 70th anniversary of the "Operation Pedestal".
On 15th August 1942 the Santa Marija Convoy arrived at the Grand Harbour.
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Since all 88 stamps are beyond the scope of this page, just 12 stamps are represented.
A further overview you get from Malta Philately, click on this line.
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Germany, a private se-tenant of ten stamps with old German battleships.
From the sheet left You see the the SMS "Bussard", "Greif", "Gefion" and "Hagen"
enlarged.
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Germany, again six individual stamps of the serial merchant ships of the biberpost.
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Germany, five individual stamps with lighthouses of the PostModern.
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