Álvaro de Bazán - Spanish admiral , 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz. Alvaro de Basan was born in Granada , where his ancestors moved from the Bastan Valley in Navarre, from which the Basan family took its name. His grandfather, also Alvaro de Basan, took part in the liberation of Granada from the Moors in...

The "Twelve Apostles" was a 120-gun 3 decked ship of the line built by the Russian shipwright Captain S. I. Chernyakovsky. It was launched on the 15th July 1841 and became part of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. The city of Sevastopol was the home of the Tsar's Black Sea Fleet, which threatened ...

“The Russian ship of the line Azov at anchor in Elsinore.” Artist: Eckersberg, Christoffer-Wilhelm (1783-1853). The 74-gun ship of the line Azov became a hero of the naval Battle of Navarino (1827), when allied forces of Britain, France and Russia defeated Ottoman and Egyptian fleets. The ship, led ...

HMS Pomone was a 38-gun Leda-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy launched in 1805. She saw action during the Napoleonic Wars, primarily in the Mediterranean while under the command of Captain Robert Barrie. She was wrecked off The Needles, part of the Isle of Wight, in 1811. The wreck is a Protected ...

The stamp shows a cropped image of the frigate USS “Constellation ” from the work of the artist John W. Schmidt “Scene depicting the engagement, with the “Constellation” (left), firing upon the “L'Insurgente” (right). 1798”. The inscription: " Constellation " 1854 is a mistake, as "Co...

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The stamp shows a cropped image of the Coventry-class frigate HMS “Carysfort” from the work of the artist Thomas Whitcombe (1763-1824) “Capture of Castor on May 29, 1794”. The inscription: "Coventry" 1757 is a mistake. HMS Carysfort (1766) is a 28-gun 6th rate frigate of the Royal Navy . L...

Duquesne is a 90-gun Touville-class sail and steamship of the line of the French Navy. Launched at Brest in 1847. Displacement 4400t. Steam engine 650HP. It took part in the Baltic theater of the Crimean War, shelling Sveaborg on 10 August 1855, as part of the Baltic Fleet off Kronstadt, ships of th...

The Endymion was the last wooden frigate built at Deptford. Her keel was laid down on 20 October 1860. She was launched on November 18, 1865. The name of the ship is given by the character of Greek myth: “Endymion was a handsome shepherd prince who was loved by the moon goddess Selene. When Zeus off...

From the middle of the 19 century until the opening of the Suez Canal in 1870, sailing vessels, known as Clipper Ships, dominated the ocean trade routes. These beautiful ships carried tea from China and wool from Australia to British ports. They carried English goods to far away lands, returning wit...

Тhe Cutty Sark is the most famous and only surviving three-masted composite sailing clipper ship of the 19th century. It was built in 1869 . Since the middle of the 20th century it has been a museum ship in Greenwich ( Great Britain ). The ship was seriously damaged during a fire on May 21, 2007 [6]...

HMS Raleigh was an unarmoured iron or "sheathed"-masted frigate completed in 1874. She was one of a series of three designed by Sir Edward Reed. The other two iron-hulled frigates of independent design were HMS Inconstant and HMS Shah. The Controller originally intended to build six of the...

Vladislav is a 74-gun sailing ship of the line of the Russian Baltic Fleet. One of nineteen Yaroslav-class ships. It was laid down on September 19 (30), 1782 at the Solombala shipyard in Arkhangelsk, launched on May 12 (23), 1784. The construction was carried out by the ship's master Mikhail Dmitrie...

HMS Phaeton was a 38-gun, Minerva-class fifth rate of Britain's Royal Navy. This frigate was most noted for her intrusion into Nagasaki harbour in 1808. John Smallshaw (Smallshaw & Company) built Phaeton in Liverpool between 1780 and 1782. She participated in numerous engagements during the Fren...

Admiral, General Adjutant, honorary member of Russia’s Imperial Academy of Science, member of the State Council, Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel was not only an outstanding scientist and seaman who made two world cruises (1817-1819 and 1824-1827), but also a notable public figure and statesman of 19th c...