SHIP STAMP SOCIETY
Interested in Ships and Stamps? The Ship Stamp Society is an international society and publishes it’s journal, Log Book, six time a year.
The editor of Log book will retire this coming August and, unless a new one comes forward, the society will close.
With this in mind, we are not taking in any new members.
This is an unfortunate situation but seemingly unavoidable.
In the border of the sheet is depict a medieval type vessel, at that time the Byzantine navy used mostly “dromon” as warship, and the vessel depict is a dromon.
The “dromon” ruled over the eastern Mediterranean until the fall of Constantinople and was the most famous warship of the Byzantine navy. It was a large fast galley in general a birime of the fleet of the Eastern Roman Empire from 800 to 1300 AD.
Two of three rowers by oar, and was propelled by 80 oars, rowed by up to 240 rowers, and carried 80 soldiers.
The largest had dimensions of length 70 metres, beam 7 metres.
Source Internet.
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