Aurora

shipstamps · Post by **shipstamps** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:13 pm

Both Bulgaria and Albania have issued stamps depicting the Russian cruiser Aurora to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 in which the cruiser played a leading part in support of the revolutionaries. Built by the Galemy yard at St. Petersburg, the Aurora was launched in 1900 and completed three years later. Her complement was 422. She displaced 6,731 tons on dimensions of 413.25 ft. by 55.75 ft. by 21 ft. and had an armament of eight, 6 in., 20, 3 in., and four smaller guns, and three torpedo tubes (two below the waterline).
Bulgaria SG1071 Albania SG601 Burkina Faso SG?

aukepalmhof · Post by **aukepalmhof** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:18 am

Built as a cruiser by the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg for the Russian Imperial Navy.
23 May 1897 laid down.
11 May 1901 launched as the AURORA, one of the Pallada class.
Displacement 6,731 tons, dim. 126.8 x 16.8 x 7.3m. (draught)
Powered by three triple expansion steam engine 11,600 hp., three screws, speed 20 knots.
Armament 10 – 6 inch, 22 – 11pdrs. and 2 – 18 inch torpedo tubes.
Crew 573.
29 July 1903 commissioned. A unit of the Baltic fleet.
AURORA is a 1900 Russian protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in St. Petersburg. She battled the Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War. One of the first incidents of the October Revolution in Russia took place on the cruiser Aurora.
Aurora was one of three Pallada-class cruisers, built in St. Petersburg for service in the Pacific Far East. All three ships of this class served during the Russo-Japanese War. The second ship, PALLADA, was sunk by the Japanese at Port Arthur in 1904. The third ship, DIANA, was interned in Saigon after the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
AURORA was part of the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron formed mostly from the Russian Baltic Fleet, which was sent from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific, under the command of Vice-Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky. On the way to the Far East, she sustained light damage from confused friendly fire in the Dogger Bank incident.
On 27 and 28 May 1905, AURORA took part in the Battle of Tsushima, along with the rest of the Russian squadron. During the battle, the wounded senior officer of the ship, Captain of 2nd rank Arkadiy Konstantinovich Nebolsine took command of the cruiser. After that AURORA, covering other, much slower Russian vessels, under the command of Rear-Admiral Oskar Enkvist, with two other Russian cruisers broke through to neutral Manila, where she was interned.
In 1906, AURORA returned to the Baltic and became a cadet training ship. From 1906 until 1912 the cruiser visited a number of other countries; in November 1911 the ship was in Bangkok as part of the celebrations in honour of the coronation of the new King of Siam.
During the First World War the ship operated in the Baltic Sea. In 1915, her armament was changed to fourteen 152 mm (6 in) guns. At the end of 1916, the ship was moved to Petrograd (the renamed St Petersburg) for a major repair. The city was brimming with revolutionary ferment and part of her crew joined the 1917 February Revolution. A revolutionary committee was created on the ship, with Aleksandr Belyshev elected as its captain. Most of the crew joined the Bolsheviks, who were preparing for a Communist revolution.
According to the Soviet account of history, on 25 October 1917, AURORA refused to carry out an order to put to sea, which sparked the October Revolution. At 9.45 p.m on that date, a blank shot from her forecastle gun signaled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace, which was to be the last episode of the October Revolution. The cruiser's crew allegedly took part in that attack.
In 1922, AURORA was brought to service again as a training ship. During the Second World War, the guns were taken from the ship and used in the land defence of Leningrad. The ship herself was docked in Oranienbaum port, and was repeatedly shelled and bombed. On 30 September 1941 she was damaged and sunk in the harbour.
After extensive repairs in 1945 - 1947, AURORA was permanently anchored on the Neva in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) as a monument to the Great October Socialist Revolution and in 1957 became a museum-ship.
On 2 November 1927, AURORA was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for her revolutionary merits and on 22 February 1968 the Order of the October Revolution. The latter features the image of the cruiser herself.
As a museum ship, the cruiser AURORA became one of the many tourist attractions of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), and continued to be a symbol of the October Socialist Revolution and a prominent attribute of Russian history. In addition to the museum space, a part of the ship continued to house a naval crew whose duties included caring for the ship, providing security and participating in government and military ceremonies. The crew was considered to be on active duty and was subject to military training and laws.
Having long served as a museum ship, from 1984 to 1987 the cruiser was once again placed in her construction yard, the Admiralty Shipyard, for capital restoration. During the overhaul, due to deterioration, the ship's hull below the waterline was replaced with a new welded hull according to the original drawings. The cut off lower hull section was towed into the Gulf of Finland, to the unfinished base at Ruchi, and sunk near the shore. The restoration revealed that some of the ship parts, including the armour plates, were originally made in England, which put in doubt the previously maintained image of the cruiser as a marvel of authentic Russian naval engineering.
AURORA stands today as the oldest commissioned ship of the Russian Navy, still flying the naval ensign under which she was commissioned, but now under the care of the Central Naval Museum. She is still manned by an active service crew commanded by a Captain of the 1st Rank.
From 1956 to the present day 28 million people have visited the cruiser AURORA.
Albania 1957 2.50/8l sg600/2, scott516/8. Bulgaria 1957 16s sg1071, scott983, 1982 13s sg3051, scott2857. Cuba 1977 3c sg2411, scott2164.Czechoslovakia 1962 30h sg1319/20, scott1137/38, 1967 30h sg?, scott1504, 1977 30h sg2372, scott2144. Ger. Dem. Rep. 1967 40pf & SS sgE1035, scott959. 1987 10pf sg?, scott2642. Hungary 1967 3fo sg1860, scott1860 Lenin on board the cruiser AURORA but not any part of the cruiser visible.). Mongolia 1977 50m sg1088, scott?.Nicaragua 1987 30cor sg2925, scott1669.Poland 1962 60g sg1343, scott1097, 1967 60g sg1774, scott1532. Romania 1962 55b sg?, scott1526. Russia 1928 14k sg530, scott?,1957 SS sg?, scott1943a, 1958 40k sg2239, scott2100, 1960 30k sg?, scott2313. 1960 60k sg?, scott2315.1963 4k sg2913/14 scott2806/7. 1970 3k sg3843, scott3752.. 1977 4k sg4704, scott4610.1988 3k sg6074, scott? Seychelles 1977 1.50r sg402, scott404. Burkina Faso 1999 200fr sg?, scott1133e
Source: Wikipedia

aukepalmhof · Post by **aukepalmhof** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:53 pm

togo 1977 50f sg1245, scott?

aukepalmhof · Post by **aukepalmhof** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 8:47 pm

Hungary 1967
Burundi 1977 sg1278/81
Vietnam 1967 20d sgN491 and 1977 1d sg183.1982 30xu sg511.
Moldova 1992 10r on 3k sg30, scott 42
Russia 1943 15k sg 1007, scott.
1943 - In the series "25th Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution" on a 15-kopeck stamp on the left in the background there is depict the cruiser "AURORA " with a beaming searchlight, on the right in the background which is either the spire of the Peter and Paul Fortress, or the mast of a ship,

1943 - In the series "25th Anniversary of the Red Army and the Navy" stamp on the 20-kopeck and on 3-ruble stamp for the 25th anniversary of the Red Armee, only differing from each other in face value and color. In the background behind the sailors there is a three-funnel ship, which most of all looks like the "AURORA".

Soviet Union 1943 20k and 3 R sg 1028 and 1031, scott?