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The stamp issue of Greenland 1994 shows the three masted steam Barque DANMARK.
She was built in Sunderland in 1855 as a whaler under the name SIR COLIN CAMPBELL. Her first owner was G Paul of Peterhead, Scotland.
In 1882 she was sold to G C HANSEN of Tonsberg, Norway. Probably he moved to Cristiania (now Oslo) because in 1898 she was registered there.
She was wooden built and had an auxilliary steam engine and was ice strengthened.
When bought to become an expedition ship (from 1906 to 1908) she was called MAGDALENA.
On 24 June 1906 she left Copenhagen and arrived at Denmarkshavn, near Cape Bismark, on 16 August 1906 to explore the north eastern part of Greenland. Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen of Copenhagen bought her for that expedition.
She had a length of 122ft 3in. Beam 30ft 2in. Depth 17ft 5in. of 377 Gt. 242Nt.

Log Book February 1996 by Piet Snijers
Greenland SG170,171.

Built as an iron hulled whaling vessel under yard No 9 by Richardson Bross in West Hartlepool for G Paul at Peterhead, Scotland.
She was the first iron ship built in Hartlepool.
Launched as the SIR COLIN CAMPBELL.
Tonnage 536 gross, 122.3 x 30.2 x 17.5ft.
Three masted barque rigged. Ice strengthened.
1855 completed.

From Peterhead was she used first as a whaler the first nine years.
Then SIR COLIN CAMPBELL was used as a cargo vessel for the transport of Cryolite from the mines of Ivigtut in southwest Greenland to the USA and ports in Europe.
1872 Sold to Norwegian owner G.C. Hansen in Tønsberg and renamed MAGDALENA, used as a sealer and whaler.
1872 Fitted out with an auxiliary steam engine of 48 nhp. in Christiania (Oslo).
1893 The famous Roald Amundsen signed on as sailor on the whaler MAGDALENA for his first voyage to Arctic waters.
1898 Was she registered in Christiania (Oslo) she was owned by different Norway owners before she was chartered in 1905 by the estate of William Ziegler for a relief expedition to Bass Rock, northeast Greenland.
She left 22 June 1905 the port of Sandefjord under command of Captain K. Tandberg and a crew of 18 men, arriving Bass Rock21 July. After inspecting the conditions of the supplies put there in 1901 on Bass Rock and Shannon Island they returned to Norway.

April 1906 the MAGDALENA was sold by the Norway owner A.Nilson, Tønsberg to the journalist and writer Mylius-Enchsen for the Danmark Expedition, she was renamed in DANMARK.
24 June 1906 she sailed from Copenhagen with on board 28 members of the expedition under command of Mylius-Enchsen. The DANMARK was under command of Alf Trolle.
The main goal for the expedition was to survey the Greenland coast from 77 degree North to Independence Bay.
16 August 1906 the expedition reached a bay near Cape Bismarck, Greenland, the bay was named Danmarkshavn and the next two year was this bay the basis camp of the expedition.
From this camp many sled dog journeys were undertaking to the hinterland and the area was named after the patron of the expedition King Fredrick VIII of Denmark, King Frederick VIII Land.
November/December 1907 during a sled dog voyage the leader Mylius-Enchsen the cartographer Höegh-Hagen and the sled steersman J Brönlund lost their life, only the body of the Greenlander Brönlund was found back in the vicinity of a camp in 1908.
23 August 1908 the DANMARK returned in Copenhagen.

1909 the DANMARK was sold to the Grønlandsk Minedrifts Aktieselskab at Copenhagen, not renamed.
She made thereafter every year voyages between Greenland and Denmark with supplies to Greenland and loaded with copper and graphite for Denmark.
1916 was she chartered by the American Museum of Natural History to bring back home the members of the Crocker Land Expedition.

December 1917 on a retour voyage from Greenland loaded with graphite she neared the coast without knowing by the captain that in his two years absence out of this waters the coastal signals had changed due to conditions in World War I.
She ran aground off Høganes, Sweden.
She was condemned and sold to a breakers yard.
Her mast, sails, engine and other fittings were sold at auction the following year.

The stamps of Denmark and Greenland were issued as part of the 1994 Europe series on the theme of Europe and its discoveries.
The Danish stamp is designed from a contemporary photograph and shows the DANMARK frozen in the ice at Danmarkshavn.
The 5.00 Kr shows the cartographer Johan Peter Koch (1870-1928) with one of his equipment a theodolite.
The Greenland stamp of 7.50 kr. shows the DANMARK and in the foreground a car used by the expedition an ELG Mobil, air-cooled with an engine of 4 hp., manufactured by the Woltham Manufacturing Comp.
The first engineer of the DANMARK Weinschenk made the first trips on the ice of Danmarkshavn.
The car travelled more as 100 miles, but due to many defects she was not used much.
The car did have also a winch for the launching and recovering of weather balloons.
She was the first car which travelled in Greenland.

Denmark 1994 3.75kr sg1024, scott1004.
Greenland 1994 4/7.25 Kr sg170/71, scott268/69.
Greenland 2014 39.50kr. sg?, scott? (The ship in the margin is also the DANMARK.) 30.50kr sg?, scott?

Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Greenland Post http://journals.cambridge.org/action/di ... aid=194605