Anne Hilarion de Tourville.
The stamp depicts a portrait of the count against the background of a painting by the artist
Richard Paton «Battle of Barfleur, 19 May 1692».
PMR 2019; [P].

Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse June 6, 1678 , Versailles - December 11 , 1737 , Rambouillet , metropolis of France is the third legitimated son of King Louis XIV of France and the Marquise de Montespan , his official mistress from 1668 to 1680. He held the titles of Count of Toulouse ...

As everyone knows, Columbus had three ships on his first voyage, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. The flagship Santa Maria had the nickname La Gallega. It was a nao, which simply means “ship” in old Spanish; today, we might call such a ship a carrack. She was fat and slow, designed for haul...

"Phoenix" is a brig of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Empire. One of three brigs of the same type. A sailing brig with a wooden hull, the first of three brigs of the same type, built from 1809 to 1818 in Kronstadt and St. Petersburg. The displacement of the brig was 470 tons, the length, ...

São Gabriel 1497
Barbados 2019; 5$.

Yu.F. Lisyansky - Russian navigator and explorer 1773-1837
Russia 2023; 45r.

The history of Madeira begins with the discovery of the islands by Portugal in 1419. There is no record of anyone living on the islands at that time. Portugal began populating the island in 1420. Pliny mentions certain Purple Islands, the position of which with reference to the Fortunate Islands or ...

Pierre Dugua de Mons (or Du Gua de Monts; c. 1558 – 1628) was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge (southwestern France) and founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada. He was Lieutenant General of New France fro...

Yi Sun-shin, also spelled Yi Sun-sin, (born April 28, 1545, Seoul, Korea [now in South Korea]—died Dec. 16, 1598, off Noryang), Korean admiral and national hero whose naval victories were instrumental in repelling Japanese invasions of Korea in the 1590s. After passing the government examinations to...

René Trouin, Sieur du Gué, also known as René Duguay-Trouin, (10 June 1673 – 1736) was a French naval officer, nobleman, slave trader, and privateer best known for his career during the War of the Spanish Succession. He had a brilliant privateering and naval career and eventually became "Lieute...

“Napoléon” was a 90-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the first purpose-built steam battleship in the world. She is also considered the first true steam battleship, and the first screw battleship ever. Launched in 1850, she was the lead ship of a class of nine battleships, all built over ...

First article for the 1860 section, the Austrian Navy’s legendary SMS Kaiser: Born as a formidable 2-decker ship of the line, arguably the pride of the Austrian Navy in 1860, she became immortal during the battle of Lissa, being the only sailing ship of the line in history to engage ironclads. SMS K...

All 3 stamps feature Lin. Spanish ship-of-the-line "Santissima Trinidad" 1769. The Barbados stamp indicates the date of the death of the Trinidad (1523), which took part in the expedition of F. Magellan, but this is a different ship. The date of construction is incorrectly indicated on the...

The treasure captured by Drake on a trip around the world (See also: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9041; 14996) made him a wealthy man, and the Queen Elizabeth I knighted him in 1581. That year he also was appointed mayor of Plymouth and became a member of the House of Commons. Between 1585 and 1586, rela...

Court Sivertsen (Norwegian Kurt Sivertsen), in Italy known as Curzio Suffrido Adelborst (December 16, 1622, Brevik - November 5, 1675, Copenhagen) - a famous 17th-century sailor, admiral, of Norwegian origin, who served in the Netherlands , Venetian and Danish fleets. He bore the honorary title &quo...