Built as a container vessel under yard No 973 by Bremer Vulkan A.G. at Vegesack, Germany for the Australian Shipping Commission (The Australian National Line) at Melbourne. 29 March 1972 launched as the AUSTRALIAN EXPORTER. Tonnage 23.486 grt, 15.326 net, 26.096 dwt., dim. 217.25 x 29.04 z 15.93m, l...

The first vessel alongside the quay on the stamp in the Free Port Gazi Magusa, Turkish Cyprus must be the POLLY PIONEER, the name POLLY you can clearly see on the bow of the ship, then a P or R is visible, the only vessel in the fleet of the PPI lines around 1989 with a P or R is the POLLY PIONEER. ...

Built as a bulk-carrier under yard No 4079 for NAVROM, Romania.

1994 Sold by Cia de Navigation Maritime Petromin S.A., Romania to Emtas Gemi Sokum A.S. Turkey for scrapping.
21 December 1994 OLTUL arrived at Aliaga, Turkey for breaking up.

Source: Marine New

Built on the Naval Shipbuilding yard at Nyholm, Denmark for the Danish navy. December 1966 launched under the name FREDERICUS QUARTUS named after King Frederick IV. Displacement 1.695 last. Dim. 185 x 50ft, draught forward 20.2 aft 22.6ft. Built as a three-decker fleet flagship. Armament 110 cannons...

Built in 1873 as an iron, sheated with teak, gunboat or corvette under yard No 408 for the Argentinean navy by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, U.K. 12 November 1973 launched under the name PARANA. She was a sistership of the URUGUAY. Tonnage 550 tons, dim. 46.36 x 7.63 x 5.4m., mean draught 3.5m. Compo...

Built as the lead ship of the Pulkovskiy Meridian type stern trawler factory ship. Built under yard No.501 by the Chernomorskiy Shipyard at Nocolaev for the Russian Government. Launched under the name PULKOVSKIY MERIDIAN. Tonnage open/closed 3.272/3.384 gross, 1.396/1.432 net, 2.043/1.815 dwt., dim....

Built as an iron hulled barque under yard 198 by A. McMillan & Son at Dumbarton for Patton, Vickers & Company, at Liverpool. Launched under the name NORTH CAROLINA. Call sign WTQV. Official No. 76367. Tonnage 570 gross, 475 under deck and 553 net. Dim. 163.1 x 29.2 x 14.9ft. Two decks; 1 cem...

Built as a motor yacht by Camper & Nicholsons, Gosport near Portsmouth, U.K. for Paris Eugene Singer one of the famous American sewing machine family. Launched as the PIONEER. Tonnage 399 gross, dim. length 45 meter. Powered by a Polar diesel engine, 250bhp. (The first yacht built by the yard fi...

The vessel depict on the stamp is not the SCOTIA; the SCOTIA was rigged as a sailing vessel with an auxiliary engine, while the stamp depicts a much more modern vessel. From my Argentinean source, I got, that she looks if she is one of the new transports ordered at that time by the Argentinean Navy,...

Built as an icebreaker by Mil Tracy Marine Industries at Sorel, Canada for the Canadian Ministry of Transport. Her building took from 1948 until 1953. Launched under the name LABRADOR. Tonnage 3.823 gross, 1.950 dwt., Displacement 6.490 ton. dim. 269 x 63.6 x 37.9½ft. Draught mean 29.1ft. Diesel ele...

The vessel depict on this stamp is a stylized form of a ship, but I believe the intentions of the designer was to show us the French research vessel La CURIEUSE. Maybe when the stamp was designed she was not in service, and was the design made after a drawing of the ships plan. The fishery research ...

Built as a wooden hulled ferry-icebreaker byE.W.Sewell at Lévis, Quebec, Canada for the Dominion Government. 06 Sept. 1876 launched under the name NORTHERN LIGHT. Tonnage ?, Dim. 133 x 25 x 15ft. Powered by a compound engine, manufactured by Carrier Laine & Co. at Sorel, 700 hp. When built had 2...

The late Mr. Argyle wrote in Log Book April 1977 page 117. 5Gs. This Japanese print depicts the Dutch East Indiaman SHELLACK bringing cloth, spices and aromatic weeds to Nagasaki in 1782 (year is not correct she was at that time not more a vessel of the VOC.) The Dutch obtained permission to trade w...

Built in 1877 by the Oscarshamns Mekaniska Verkstad, Oscarshamn, Sweden for Finska Transito-ångbåtsaktiebolaget (Carl Korsman). 1877 Launched under the name EXPRESS II. Tonnage 298 gross, dim. 42.2 x 6.85m. Steam engine 400 hp. Speed 11 knots in ice free waters. Accommodation for 26 passengers. She ...

Built as a British sloop by C.Rennoldson for the Royal Navy. 21 Feb. 1916, launched under the name HMS VALERIAN. One of the Arabis class. Displacement 1.250 ton, dim. 257.7 x 33.5 x 11.7 ft. Powered by a triple expansion steamengine, 2.000 ihp. One propeller, speed 17 knots. Armament 2 – 4.7 inch, 2...