Ben My Chree III (Packet Steamer) 1908 Ben-my-Chree (Manx: "Woman of My Heart") was a packet steamer and a Royal Navy (RN) seaplane carrier of the First World War. She was originally built in 1907 by Vickers for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and was intended for use on the Liverpool...

Viking 1905 Built as a passenger ferry by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd. of Newcastle-on-Tyne. 07 March 1905 launched under the name VIKING. She was the first turbine driven vessel by the company. Coal fired. Used in the ferry service between Fleetwood and Douglas. She made the passage in 1907 ...

She was built as a patrol and minesweeper under yard No 268 as one of the Typ. 89.240; Kondor Class II (project 89.200 by the VEB Peenewerft, Wolgast, East Germany for the Volksmarine (East German Navy) 03 August 1972 launched as the BERNAU. Named after Bernau a town near Berlin in the former DDR. D...

Sierra Leone issue 2022

Sierra Leone issue 2022.

The ZEEWIJK a new ship of 38 guns belonging to the Dutch East India Company (V.Q.C.) hit the Half Moon Reef, near Gun Island, at night fail on 9th June 1727. She did not sink immediatly and some 20 or 30 of her crew continued to live on her for 4 months. Others found safety on an artificial island f...

Transnistria (also called Trans-Dniestr or Transdniestria) is a partially recognized state located mostly on a strip of land between the River Dniester and the eastern Moldovan border with Ukraine. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, and especially after the War of Transnistria in 1992, i...

Central African Republic.

Meilen is a Swiss car ferry that operates across Lake Zurich between the lakeside towns of Horgen and Meilen. The ferry route is situated 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of the city of Zurich, and the ferry avoids a round trip by road of some 30 kilometres (19 mi) by road via that city. Built 1979 by B...

It’s an almost surreal experience walking or driving past riverside offices along the Thames towards Lambeth Bridge from the south, when the bows of a ship emerge suddenly from an office building: a ten tonne, seven metre high bronze vessel, with a seafarer on the prow. Appropriately sited, this mon...

Madagascar Stamps

New Zealand 2022

The stamp shows typical Moran tug but without being named. Founded in 1860, by Michael Moran. When Moran opened a towing and brokerage firm, the Moran Towing and Transportation Company of New York, New York. In 1863, the company transitioned from a brokerage firm to an owner/operator of towing vesse...

May 31, 1911 Assisted following the launch of Titanic
April 2, 1912 Assisted Titanic on her sea trials

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