http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11209/tmp11C-200x127.jpg http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11209/tmp11D-128x200.jpg http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11209/tmp11E-200x128.jpg Not much is known till so far about the frigate PRINCESA, (or LA PRINCESA) the name...

Builder: Ishikawajima Shipyards Yard number: Destroyer No. 49 Laid down: November 28, 1928 Launched: February 27, 1930 Commissioned: November 10, 1930 Fate: Sunk near Borneo on April 23, 1944 General characteristics Class and type: Fubuki-class destroyer Displacement: 1,750 long tons (1,780 t) stand...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11200/tmp11B-200x156.jpg The name “chata” is given in Mozambique to a small flat-bottomed boat used for net fishing from beaches in the vicinity of Maputo on the south coast. Overhanging bow terminates in a raked bow transom that rises in a semicircle ...

Built as sealer/research/supply vessel under yard No 39 by the Vaagen Verft, Kyrksaeterora, Norway for Rieber Shipping at Bergen, Norway. 09 Jan. 1974 launched under the name POLARBJØRN. Tonnage 497 grt, 148 net, 590dwt. Dim. 49.49 x 11.55 x 8.64m, draught 4.78m. Length bpp. 42.4m Powered by two 9-c...

Built under yard no 858 as a battleship by the yard of Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle for the Navy of Chile. Intended name "ALMIRANTE COCHRANE". She was designed by J.R.Perrett. 29 July 1912 contract signed with the builder. 24 Feb. 1913, laid down. August 1914, work ceased at that time he...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sg563ms.thumbnail.jpg The islands of Tuvalu are served by a passenger and cargo vessel, the M.V. Nivaga II, based at Funafuti, which occasionally calls at Suva, Fiji. Shipping services operate from Fiji, Australia and New Zealand calling at the...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11180/tmp13C-200x153.jpg http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11180/tmp13D-200x194.jpg Built as a passenger vessel under yard No 433 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast for the Oceanic S.N.Co. Ltd, (White Star Line), Liverpool. 30 November 1911 l...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11176/tmp13B-200x73.jpg Gibraltar issued in 1988 a stamp of 22p, which depict two vessels. The vessel on the left is the British passenger liner CANBERRA the vessel on the right is according the Norwegian Captain Gunnar Oera the Norwegian catamaran GIB...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11172/tmp139-200x149.jpg Built as a light ASW frigate by Boelwerf Temse, Belgium for the Belgium Navy. Order placed in October 1973. 28 March 1975 laid down. 21 June 1977 launched under the name WANDELAAR (F912), named after a large sandbank off the Be...

Built as a heavy cruiser on the Devonport Dockyard at Devonport for the Royal Navy. 01 August 1928, laid down. 18 July 1929, launched under the name HMS "EXETER". Displacement: 8.390 tons standard, 10.410 tons full load, dim. 164.9 x 18 x6.2m.(draught). Powered by Parsons turbines, 80.000 ...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11161/tmp168-200x156.jpg 2001 The Philippines issued a stamp for the Centenary of the arrival of American Educators in the Philippines, the vessel depict on the stamp is the USAT THOMAS; most probably they arrived on this vessel in 1901 in the Philippi...

Fishing vessel launched 1982 208dwt.

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http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11153/sg628-200x140.jpg Class and type: Arethusa class light cruiser Name: HMS Royalist Builder: William Beardmore and Company Laid down: 3 June 1913 Launched: 14 January 1915 Commissioned: March 1915 Fate: Sold for scrapping 24 August 1922 General cha...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11149/SG613-200x140.jpg Ordered: 28 December 1915 Laid down: 14 May 1917 Launched: 30 April 1919 Commissioned: 3 June 1920 Decommissioned: 14 February 1947 Struck: 1 March 1959 Honors and awards: Navy Unit Commendation, ten battle stars Fate: Sold for ...

http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11140/SG614-200x140.jpg Builder: Mitsubishi shipyard, Nagasaki Laid down: March 16, 1925 Launched: March 24, 1928 Commissioned: April 25, 1929 Struck: June 20, 1945 Fate: Sunk in the Indian Ocean by gunfire and torpedoes, June 16, 1945 General characte...