http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11347/tmp144-200x141.jpg The vessel depict on this stamp is the container vessel built in 1977, and not as by some given as built in 1990. The stamp is issued in 1990 and the vessel built in 1990 was delivered after the stamp was issued, also the ship ...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11343/tmp141-200x150.jpg Built as an iron passenger-cargo vessel under yard 111 by the yard of Tod & McGregor, Glasgow for M. Langlands & Son, Glasgow and managed by the Glasgow & Liverpool Steam Packet. 20 June 1861 launched under the name...

She is the cruise vessel in front of the NORWAY

See her details under STATENDAM built in 1956.

Bahamas 1987 40c sg805

October 1953 the Holland Amerika Lijn ordered a new passenger vessel for her liner service across the North Atlantic, but also suitable for cruising. Built under yard No 753 by N.V. Dok-en Werf Mij Wilton Fijenoord, Schiedam, Netherlands. 18 June 1955 keel laid down in a dry dock. 12 June 1956 she w...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11330/tmp13D-200x139.jpg http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11330/tmp13E-200x178.jpg Not much is known about this vessel early history. Where built and when is not known. She is given as a wooden 3-mast barque with a tonnage of 521 ton, dim...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11326/tmp13C-200x136.jpg Most probably built as a whaler, her first voyage was to the fishing grounds of the South Seas. Built as a wooden 3-mast full rigged ship in 1831 at Yarmouth, other source gives Southtown, Suffolk. Launched under the name SUSSE...

Prince Albert succeeded to the throne of Monaco in 1889, and for the first three years of his reign devoted his attention entirely to the affairs of the Principality, and it was not until 1892 that he once again was able to turn his attention to the practical operations connected with oceanography. ...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11316/SG%20595-200x111.jpg http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11316/SG%20596-200x116.jpg The lightship is the Cyklop, a wooden vessel built at Kalmar, Sweden in 1843-44. Her tonnage was 37 laester or about 83 tons, on dimensions 21.3 metres...

Sweden is to issue in September 1969, a 50 ore stamp depicting the Wasa (Vasa), one of four warships ordered by King Gustavus Adolphus in January 1625, when he decided that he needed a much stronger navy if his dreams of conquest in Northern Europe were to be realised. In that month the order was pl...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11305/tmpF2-200x135.jpg She is the Cherokee class built HMS LYRA of 1808 built for the Royal Navy and sold in 1818 for breaking up. Many times ships sold by the Royal Navy for breaking up were repaired and special the smaller ones used for whaling. The...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11301/tmp186-200x136.jpg Built in India before 1811, in this year is given by Lloyds that she complete was overhauled and repaired, and carried the name PRUDENT. Tonnage given as 227 gross. Homeport London. 1814 Given that the London Whaling Company wa...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11297/tmp185-200x152.jpg Built as a tank landing craft by Chantiers La Perriere, La Perriere, Normandy, France for the Seychelles Government. 12 December 1977 ordered. Launched under the name CINQ JUIN (Five June). Tonnage as given by Equasis 857 gross...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11293/tmp184-200x151.jpg During an Imperial conference in 1913, James Allen, Minister of Defence in the Massey Government of New Zealand, asked for a greater more independent roll of the New Zealand Navy. At that time New Zealand paid a yearly contribu...

Built as a ship-of-the-line at Stockholm for the Swedish Navy. Launched as the SMÅLANDS LEJONET (Lion of Smaland) also known as the SMALANDS LEJON. Displacement 800 tons, dim. 36.5 x 9.0 x 3.6m. (draught). Armament 32 – 46pdrs. Crew 180. 1634 Completed. 13 October 1644 took part as flagship of Gener...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11285/tmp2BC-200x129.jpg Also a ship with not the full name on the stamp, issued by Jamaica in 1974, she is given in Lloyds List as MARCHIONESS OF QUEENSBURY, but in a new book The Falmouth Packets 1689-1851 by Tony Pawlyn is she given as MARQUIS OF QU...