Argentine issued in 1989 two stamps and a MS which shows us on the 150a stamp the German ship WESER.
The stamps commemorate the arrival of the first Jews from Europe in Argentine 100 years ago.
The vessel depict is not the WESER of 1889 as given on the stamp, but the one built in 1922.
For the Norddeutscher Lloyd in Bremen four ships were built with the name WESER.
The WESER (II) was the vessel which must have been depict on the stamp, but in 1889 the year given on the stamp I can not find that she made a call in an Argentinean port
Built under yard No 137 as a passenger-cargo vessel by Caird & Co., Greenock, U.K. for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen.
19 March 1867 launched as the WESER.
Tonnage 2,825 gross, dim. 99.06 x 12.19m.
Powered by an expansion steam engine, 1,500 ihp, speed 12 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 60 first, 120 second and 714 steerage passengers.
01 June 1867 sailed for her maiden voyage from Bremen bound for New York.
1881 Her builder replaced her expansion steam engine with compound steam engines, 1,300hp.
1892 Used in the liner service between New York and the Mediterranean.
13 June 1895 she made her last round voyage from Bremen to New York and Baltimore.
1895 Used in the liner service from Germany to South America, she left on 3 August 1896 for the first time from Bremen in this service, she made two round voyages in this service before she was sold.
June 1896 sold for breaking up to Italy.
Her last voyage to the breakers she made under the name SERAVALLE and under Italian flag.
August 1896 scrapped in Genoa.
The vessel depict on the stamp is the WESER (III).
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 323 by A.G. Weser, Bremen for the Norddeutscher Lloyd.
07 June 1922 launched as the WESER (III), five sisters.
Tonnage 9,444 gross, dim. 146 x 17.56m., length bpp. 139.8m
Powered by two triple expansion steam engines, 4,200 hp, speed 12.5 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 74 first and 90 second and 817 steerage
Crew 42.
28 October 1922 delivered to owners.
The class was built for the service from Germany to the Far East, but she were to slow and had sponsons for stability.
The WESER was the first of her class.
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11 November 1922 sailed for her maiden voyage to the Far East, after two round voyages taken out of that service and put in the service from Bremen to South America.
08 October 1931 laid up at Bremen.
February 1933 sold to A.G. Weser for breaking up.
Argentine 1989 150A sg2167, scott1660 and MS
Source: Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen 1857-1970 by Edwin Drechsel. Various web-sites.