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PUERTO DESEADO

Post by shipstamps » Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:37 pm


AN INSTITUTION DEVOTED TO THE SEA.

The Argentina hydrographic headquarters, today the Naval Hydrographic Service was created on 6th June 1879, in order to unity the naval isolated efforts in need of an official coordination. The main function of this organization was to compile the relevant records for preparing the safe sea routes of the Argentine coast and markings by buoys.
The need of hiring a well-trained task forces has also contributed to the foundation of the Buenos Aires Cartography School in 1962, which is today the School of Sciences of the Sea.

The use of technology has notably influence on the projects performed by the service, with respect to the task of marking with buoys. New signals were developed and included in a net covering mostly the maritime coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic seas. Various documents that are indispensable for navigation, such as navigation charts, routes and tide tables, were also published.

With respect to Antarctica, the Naval Hydrographic Service developed several projects in different areas, hydrographic, cartography, meteorology, oceanography, signaling and navigation safety, as a result of all this tasks, the service was also in charge of operating and maintaining the public services of marking with buoys and navigation safety, of editing the national and international cartography, and of exploring and researching on meteorology, oceanography, and marine ice.

Presently, the naval hydrographic service, responsible of the public services on navigation safety, marking with buoys and the tide levels, has ten technical-operative departments plus some others for support. Two ships and three motor launches. The carrying out of these duties transcends the service’s specific field.
For example, to the initial function of imparting the navigators the time, the duty of determining, preserving, controlling, and generating the official time signals has been added.

In this year the service will be 125, during this very long period, the Naval Hydrographic Service grew adjusting itself to the international guidelines now; national researchers and achievements are added for a world wide common development.

As a background on all stamps you can see a fragment of the Rio de La Plata spherical navigation chart of 1875.

The survey and research vessel depict on the stamp is the PUERTO DESEADO.
Built by Astaras, San Fernando, Argentina for Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Technicas y Cientificas at Buenos Aires.
17 March 1976 laid down.
04 December 1976 launched under the name PUERTO DESEADO (Q8) later Q20.
Displacement 2.133 ton standard, 2.400 ton full load., dim. 76.8 x 15.8 x 6.5m., draught 4.80m
Powered by two Fiat-GMT diesel engines 3.600 hp., speed 15 knots, one screw.
Bunker capacity 700 tons, range 12.000 miles at 12 knots.
Compliment 61 and 20 scientists.
28 Feb. 1979 commissioned.
Late 1996 was she painted with an orange hull for Antarctic deployments.

Source: Argentina Post leaflet. Jane’s Fighting Ships 2003-2004.

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Re: PUERTO DESEADO

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:03 pm

The research ship depicts in the margin of this miniature sheet is the PUERTO DESEADO. For more information and details see:

2019 In service.

sArgentina 2018 $120 sgMS?, scott?
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