Built as a side-paddle passenger ferry under yard No. 286 by A & J Inglis Ltd. Pointhouse, Glasgow, Scotland for Nav. A Vap. Nicolás Mihanovich Soc. Anon., Buenos Aires. Launched under the name LAMBARE, one sister the GUARANY. Tonnage 1.200 gross, other source 1.492 gross, 593 net. Dim. 75.65 x ...

She was built by the yard of C.R.D. Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy for Departamento Nacional de Higiene de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentine. Launched under the name RAWSON. Tonnage 295 gross, 91 net, dim. 35-meter long 25.4 ft. beam. Powered by a 6-cyl oil engine, manufactured by MacColl & Po...

Built as a trawler-minesweeper by Cochrane & Sons, Selby for the Royal Navy. 15 August 1939 keel laid down. 12 December 1939 launched as the HMS BAY one of the Tree Class minesweepers. Tonnage 505 ton, dim. 164.1 x 27.7ft. One reciprocating engine, 850 hp, one shaft, speed 11 knots. Armament 1 –...

Built as Rock lobster processing and factory mother ship and refrigerated trawler by E.S. Barens & Co. Pty., Durban, South Africa for the South Atlantic Island Development Corp., at Cape Town. Launched under the name GILLIAN GAGGINS. Tonnage 794 gross, 394 net, 1.180 dwt., dim. 162.75 x 32.58 x ...

Information on early Portuguese warships is hard to find, and not much I know on this ship. Built (I presume) in Portugal in 1701, under the name NOSSA SENHORA DA CONCEIÇÃO. Ship-of-the-line with an armament of 80 guns. Crew 700 men. She took part with the Portuguese navy in the Campaign of Corfu in...

Benin issued in 1995 a set of stamps with watercraft on it, the 40f stamp depict a paddelsteamer without a name. The book, Powered Ships the beginnings gives on page 30 the same paddlesteamer, with the caption Miller and Symington’s experimental steamboat on Loch Dalswinton, 1788. Patrick Miller (17...

When the missionaries John Williams was at Rarotonga he needed a ship to reach the islands to the westward, which were situated more as 1000 miles from Rarotonga. Plenty of trees were growing on the island but Williams did not have a saw to saw the planks and no iron to fasten the planks. Williams n...

The French post issued a stamp in 2009 which shows us the port Les Sables-d’Olonne on the stamp are two sailing yachts. The only thing I could find that the four yearly Vendée Globe yacht race starts and ends in Les Sables-d’Olonne, maybe the yacht in the foreground is one of participants in this ra...

Built as an iron cargo vessel under yard No 4 by J.Priestman & Co., Sunderland, U.K. for account Perry, Raimes & Co., West Hartlepool, U.K. 23 December 1882 launched under the name ACASTER. Christened by Mrs. Cundall. Tonnage 1.450 grt. 823 net, 2.000 dwt., dim. 251 x 34.6 x 17.5ft. One comp...

Built in Falmouth in 1819 for account of Tilly & Co Named CAMDEN. Tonnage 191 49/94 tons. Brig rigged. The armament at that time for a packet boat was mostly 4 – 4pdr. and 2 – 6pdr guns. Crew around 28 men. She was employed in the Falmouth Packet service from new building until sold in 1837/38. ...

Not any info on the ship under that name, who can help?

North Korea 1974 10ch sg N1326

Built under yard No 687 as a fish factory ship by the Verolme yard at Alblasserdam, Netherlands for North Korean account. 27 February 1964 keel laid down. 29 August 1964 launched under the name BAEK DU SAN as given by Lloyds, Stanley Gibbons gives PAEKDUSAN and the Dutch magazine Blauwe Wimpel BACK ...

North Korea issued a set of 6 stamps which depict vessels used by or in fishing by North Korean. The 2ch is the CHIL BO SAN, the 5ch is the BAEK DU SAN and the 10ch the MOR AN BONG. During 1968/69 two fishfactory vessels were built by the Verolme yard in Heusden, Netherlands for Korean Fishing Owner...

Built as a bulkcarrier under yard No 826 by Namura at Imari, Japan for the Nauru Local Government Council on Nauru. 06 June 1977 launched under the name ROSIE D. Tonnage 17.412 gross, 11.845 net, 26.524 dwt., dim. 177.2 x 25.1 x 13.8m, length bpp. 162.2m Powered by one Sulzer diesel engine 8.616 kW....

CENTENARY OF NAVAL AVIATION CAUDRON GIII. On 5 July 1915, two aircraft of the RNAS (a Caudron GIII and a Henri Farman) attacked the German cruiser SMS KÖNIGSBERG in the Rufiji Delta, and then spotted for the guns of monitors HMS SEVERN and HMS MERSEY ultimately leading to the sinking of SMS KÖNIGSBE...