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Maritime Topics on Stamps
June / July Stamps 2018
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Polynesie Francaise, a single stamp, 250th anniversary of the arrival of Bougainville at Tahiti.
The vessel is presumably the La Boudeuse.
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Guernsey, a set with six stamps, 201 (Guernseys own) Squadron - RAF100.
Here we see the two maritime stamps, left Search and Rescue, right attack on U-Boat U440.
RAF - Royal Air Force.
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Finland, a set with six stamps, 100 years defence forces.
Among them this two stamps which are enlarged below.
Left the submarine Vesikko, right the small fighting vessel Tornio.
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Malaysia,two stamps and a small souvenir sheet with two stamps, river courses.
On the stamps we see some boats, vessels and ferries.
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New Zealaand, two souvenir sheets with / and six single stamps, 50th anniversary "Wahine".
The Wahine was a New Zealand ferry. 10th April 1968 during a heavy storm she ran on the Barrett Reef
at Wellington Harbour and capsized. 53 people died.
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Saint Pierre et Michelon,
a single stamp with the trawler La Neve.
The reason is a Havaner fishing company.
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Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaise, a single stamp with the rsearch vessel L'Astrolabe.
This stamp was issued 2017, but with a value of 1.30 Euro. Now we see left top the specification
Lettre 20g.
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Ukraine, a single stamp, one hundred anniversary of Unkraine flags on vessels.
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Slovenia, a small sheet with a single stamp.
Depicted is the freighter Ljubljana.
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Liechtenstein, a single stamp, "First Citrine". It is a precious stone stamp.
Citrin is a yellow crystal stone.
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Lithuania, a set with two stamps, European bridges. Left the Birzos Bridge at Klaipeda.
The sailing ship is the Meridianas.
On the right stamp we see the Trakai Castle Bridge with some local sailing crafts.
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Åland, a Cinderella (?) of postcrossing fans.
(Världen - world, Postcrossing - send the card and get another back).
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India, a joint issue of India and the Iran. Depicted are two ports, India's Kandla and
Iran's Chabahar.
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Mocambique, a set with four stamps and a sheet with one stamp, great sailing vessels, windjammers.
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Belarus, a se-tenant of four stamps with pictures of different Russian painters.
Among them this maritime picture / stamp.
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Tristan da Cunha, a souvenir sheet with four stamps, 70 years the Tristan Venture, Fishing Industry
scientific survey expedition 1948.
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Estonia, a new stamp for the lighthouse serial. Here the tower of Manilaiu Tuletorn
is depicted.
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Canada, two stamps of a serial of countryside stamps. Among them these stamps of
Covehead Harbor and Cathedral Grove in British Columbia.
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Polynesie Francaise, a single stamp, 150th anniversary of the lighthouse Point Venus, Tahiti.
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Mocambique, a set with four stamps and a sheet with one stamp, lighthouses.
Depicted are Sietringen/Norway, Galtarviti/Iceland, Point Atkinson/Canada, Ponce Inlet/Florida and
Slangkop/South Africa.
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Tajikistan, a set with six stamps lighthouses.
Depicted are Peggy Point/Canada, Kermoruan/France, Portland Head/USA,
Chania/Kreta, Felgueiras/Portugal and Lindesnes/Norway.
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Netherlannds, four individual stamps with the Canadian lighthouses Peggy Cove and Cape Spear and
the vessels Prinsendam and der Richard With.
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Germany, five individual stamps with ships of the German Navy and coast guard.
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Note:
Other issued stamps, for the collector unreasonable, expensive "quick and dirty" stamps of
Guinea Bissau, Maledives, Niger, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo and Central Africa
are not pictured here.
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