On the AREA of the SMALL SHEET(MS) depicted fluyte of Brandenburg-"Derflinger" 1675. Fluyte - a type of Dutch ships, which for 16-18 centuries. occupied a dominant position in all the seas. The first fluyte was built in 1595 in Horne, the center of shipbuilding Holland, in the Gulf of Zeyd...

The STAMP 600FG depicts copy of the painting Derek Gardner: « The 28-gun Frigat Boreas.Captain Horatio Nelson.1787». HMS Boreas: Nelson and the West Indies. HMS Boreas was built by the firm of Blaydes and Hodgson at the Charlestown Shipyard in Hull in 1767. Boreas means 'North Wind' and she was cons...

On the AREA of the SMALL SHEET(MS) depicted warship Swedish"Wasa" 1628. Vasa (or Wasa) is a Swedish warship built 1626-1628. The ship foundered and sank after sailing less than a nautical mile (ca 2 km) into its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. It fell into obscurity after most of its valu...

The STAMP 600FG depicts copy of the painting Derek Gardner: «Setting Topgallants:the China Clipper Ambassador,1870.» 'Ambassador' was a British Tea Clipper. She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was Lund's first tea clipper. Her fastest crossing between Ch...

On the AREA of the SMALL SHEET(MS) depicted the English war ship "HMS Resolution" 1667. HMS Resolution was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich Dockyard in 6 December 1667. She was one of only three third rate vessels designed and built by the noted m...

On the AREA of the SMALL SHEET(MS) depicted ship Portugal "St. Gabriel" 1493.(To compare with the stamp of Equatorial Guinea). The young courtier of noble birth, brave Vasco da Gama led the first expedition in 1497 of three ships ("San Gabriel", "San Rafael" and "B...

On the AREA of the SMALL SHEET(MS) depicted war ship English "St. George" 1690. Three-deck ship with sails on three masts: the main-and fore-mast with three sails lines each, and mizzen-mast, with a Latin sail, on which was attached a square sail stretched between two yards (one upstairs, ...

Guinea Bissau in MS shows the ship Bellona from paintings Geoff Hant:HMS Bellona on blockade duty off Brest 1760. HMS Bellona was a 74-gun Bellona -class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy . Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she was a prototype for the iconic 74-gun ships of the latter part o...

Uche : Term for canoe* in the Hermit Islands in the northwestern part of the Bismarck Archipelago. The fishing canoe has a dugout hull to which one or more strakes are sewn; hull rounded in cross section; ends, overhanging, and round up from the bot-tom.Each end-piece is prolonged as a massive,inboa...

Canoe of Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago: The Tami Islanders noted ship-boulders and trades .They carry cargoes of pottery to Moeve Harbor,200 kilometers distant across the open sea. The structure and especially the decoration of the two-masted canoe of the Tami Islanders are essentially simi...

Mary Gidley, an American mother-of-two, took part in the strange "Acali experiment", devised by eminent anthropologist, Dr Santiago Genoves. Five men and six women of several different nationalities set sail on a raft from the Canary Isles heading for Mexico, as an experiment in social beh...

During the 1790s American merchant vessels began to fall prey to Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean, most notably from Algiers. Congress's response was the Naval Act of 1794.[7] The Act provided funds for the construction of six frigates. USS President was a nominally rated 44-gun wooden-hulled, t...

One such extreme clipper was the Red Jacket, designed by Samuel Harte Pook, and built and launched from George Thomas' shipyard at Rockland, Maine on November 2, 1853. She was a large exquisitely handsome clipper of perfect proportions quite pleasing to the eye that some said "had the graceful ...

Leander was a composite built clipper ship. Leander, from the Hero and Leander myth, is a character from Greek myth, and has given his name to clipper. She was designed by Bernard Waymouth, and built in 1867 by J G Lawrie of Glasgow for Joseph Somes. She had a raised quarter deck 42 ft long. The mai...

The Wreck of the Grosvenor, an East Indiaman, occurred on Sunday 4 August 1782 on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the Umzimvubu River mouth. The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship, São João, had gone down more than two centuries earlier on 8 June 1552. The Grosv...