Paisley is in Scotland - not England.

Sorry Auke but the tug at the bow is not NOORDZEE and neiither is it the tug at the stern.

Following my message to the ATA Ships Group in 2016 I can confirm that the ARRC vessels have now been taken over by the UK Border Force and several are based at Dover to intercept illegal migrants who are crossing the English Channel from France to try and get into the UK. 6 of the vessels have been...

The ship on this stamp has a two word name which would make it the LEWEK CONNECTOR.

Peter C

One of the two ships on the lefthand side (the lower one) of the NATCHEZ has been identified by myself as MAID OF THE LOCH which is preserved at Balloch on the southern end of Loch Lomond. I think I posted this on the Watercraft Philately list some years ago, but I might be mistaken.

Peter C

The ship in the margin of the 1993 Guyana MS is a US Coast Guard ice breaker and not the MALYGIN.

I can confirm that the ship on the stamp is not the ESVAGT CHAMPION which I saw and photographed departing Aberdeen a few days ago. I was talking to friend in Aberdeen this morning and mentioned the X bow vessel. He thinks that Esvagt have two X bows that are currently operating in the Norwegian sec...

The small vessel on the left of the 10 Pfg stamp is a trawler.

Peter C

I am not sure whether either of the Border tankers would have gone to Cuba. They were mostly seen tootling around British ports delivering fuel from Fawley to smaller ports like Aberdeen. This would not be the the first time that Cuba has issued a stamp that has no connection to the island. The tug ...

This ship is NOT the USS NASHVILLE. It is incorrectly named in Gibbons' Ships on Stamps

Many years ago I identified it as the Irish Naval Vessel EITHNE which has since appeared on at least one Irish stamp - SG 703.

Peter C

Auke

NORWEGIAN ESTRELA will be the NORWEGIAN STAR.

Peter

An update on the ALCANTARA. I saw this ferry on 28 October 2007 heading to the port of Algeciras in the bay of Gibraltar. She had just crossed from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north African coast opposite Gibraltar. She was sailing under the colours of the Spanish company Acciona Transmedite...

This is not the 1966 built BLACK PRINCE but the one Launched by Akers of Oslo on 22.12.37; completed in May 1938 for Fred Olsen Line. Length: 111.3m; Breadth: 16.2m. She operated between Oslo, Kristiansand and Newcastle Renamed LOFJORD in 1941. 1941 seized by Germans for a submarine depot ship, bomb...

John

This submarine has been identified as S 303 UTVAER.

Peter C

According to MIRAMAR, ASTRAGALE was built as HMS WALRUS, a naval air stores carrier, in 1945 by Blyth DD. She was commissioned on 10 December 1945. J J Colledge’s Ships of the Royal Navy states that in 1953 she was renamed HMS SKUA and in 1962 was sold for mercantile use. Links:- http://www.roderick...