Featured on the 5Gs. stamp from Paraguay is the 3‑masted ship Humboldt, which was built in 1851 at Lubeck for the Hamburg shipping firm of Sloman, founded by William Sloman, a British seaman, in 1785. The stamp is taken from the painting by C. J. Fedeler, in the Morgenstem Museum, Bremerhaven.
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Humboldt
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Re: Humboldt
She was built by H.J.A. Meyer, Lubeck.
Tonnage 306 ton, dim. 47.73 x 9.78 x 6.58m.
1866 Was she lost.
Source: Navicula.
Tonnage 306 ton, dim. 47.73 x 9.78 x 6.58m.
1866 Was she lost.
Source: Navicula.