OSWALDO CRUZ U-18 Hospital ship
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:36 pm
Built as a hospital ship by the Arsenal de Marinho, Rio de Janeiro for the Brazilian Navy.
11 July 1983 launched as the OSWALDO CRUZ (U-18) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo_Cruz , one sister-ship the CARLOS CHAGAS (U-19).
Displacement 360 ton standard, 490 ton full load. Dim. 47.2 x 8.5 x 1.8m.
Two Scania diesel engines, 714 hp, twin shafts, speed 8.5 kn. upstream.
Crew 46 + 21 medical staff.
29 May 1984 completed.
She was based on the Roraima-class patrol boat design and both were completed in 1984.
Designed specifically to perform missions of medical assistance in rivers and shallow waters. They are equipped with adequate hospital facilities, a good capacity to transport and accommodate personnel and can receive a helicopter. They also carry two boats, which enable them to reach points of difficult access.
2015 in service.
By the stamp issues is given by the Brazilian Post:
When in 1996 the President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardose made public the document denominated “National Policy” the fact that included a concern with the River Amazon for the first time in Brazilian military history, was very surprising. Not only due to the fact that the River Amazon has become a target of the so-called international organized crime, generating unstableness with neighbour countries, but also for the importance of that region in the country’s social and economic life, not the mention the challenge issued by the need for sustainable development to provide for local populations without jeopardizing the right of future generations. To the use of mineral and vegetal resources of the region.
And regarding this national concern about the formulation of an integrated policy for the Amazon considering the growing interest in world scale, for the biodiversity of the largest tropical forest in the world, the President drew up the following guideline in the National Defence Policy; it is a duty of the Armed Forces to protect the Brazilian Amazon, with the support of the society as a whole and praising the military presence.
This principle, contained in the White Book of Defence, was extensively addressed by the Ministry of defence, Geraldo Quintäo whose office-taking speech inserted the Brazilian Armed Forces in the strategic scope of security and defence, not only in search of a greater interaction with Brazil’s neighbour countries but also for the defence of the Amazon as an strategic area: “its great dimensions and immense natural richness, still unexplored are demanding and intense training of the Armed Forces as a dissuasion force, to broaden and consolidate the presence of the State, keep permanent watch on the frontier areas and, in a civic and social work, integrate citizenship into the civil population of the remote areas”
In the practice, the Ministry of Defence, through the Army, Navy and Air force, has been occupying the Amazonic region. Army units were transferred to the region, the number of Navy patrol ships and Air-force planes has increased and the SIVAM project (Amazon Watch System) is being implemented, with the placement of fixed mobile radars to locate pirate airplanes in the service of narcotrafficants and smugglers of the region’s natural resources. For the Ministry of Defences, defending the Amazon is not only essential to maintain its integrity and territorial sovereignty, but also to aid the Brazilian scientific community in the development of the Amazonic biodiversity, aiming at benefits for the 20 million inhabitants of the region, besides the 140 million Brazilians in the rest of the country.
The miniature sheet was designed by Alberto Jose Lobo Ferreira Lima and included the elements that compose the block’s design, including the hand that protects the biodiversity: sketch the Brazilian flag in the central space. The central circle, besides composing one more element of the Brazilian flag, is a magnifier, showing the need of investigating the almost infinite natural resources. The Brazilian Navy ship on the right side is the OSWALDO CRUZ Hospital Assistance Ship, which takes part in the fleet of the so-called “Hope Ships” for the Amazon population living on the river banks and given emphasis to the military action in the Amazon responsible for the guarantee not only of the frontier security and prevention of the crimes against biodiversity, but also for the assistance to local population.
Brazil 2000 RS1.50 sg?, scott?
Source: Watercraft Philately. Wikipedia. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Brazil Postal information bulletin.
11 July 1983 launched as the OSWALDO CRUZ (U-18) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo_Cruz , one sister-ship the CARLOS CHAGAS (U-19).
Displacement 360 ton standard, 490 ton full load. Dim. 47.2 x 8.5 x 1.8m.
Two Scania diesel engines, 714 hp, twin shafts, speed 8.5 kn. upstream.
Crew 46 + 21 medical staff.
29 May 1984 completed.
She was based on the Roraima-class patrol boat design and both were completed in 1984.
Designed specifically to perform missions of medical assistance in rivers and shallow waters. They are equipped with adequate hospital facilities, a good capacity to transport and accommodate personnel and can receive a helicopter. They also carry two boats, which enable them to reach points of difficult access.
2015 in service.
By the stamp issues is given by the Brazilian Post:
When in 1996 the President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardose made public the document denominated “National Policy” the fact that included a concern with the River Amazon for the first time in Brazilian military history, was very surprising. Not only due to the fact that the River Amazon has become a target of the so-called international organized crime, generating unstableness with neighbour countries, but also for the importance of that region in the country’s social and economic life, not the mention the challenge issued by the need for sustainable development to provide for local populations without jeopardizing the right of future generations. To the use of mineral and vegetal resources of the region.
And regarding this national concern about the formulation of an integrated policy for the Amazon considering the growing interest in world scale, for the biodiversity of the largest tropical forest in the world, the President drew up the following guideline in the National Defence Policy; it is a duty of the Armed Forces to protect the Brazilian Amazon, with the support of the society as a whole and praising the military presence.
This principle, contained in the White Book of Defence, was extensively addressed by the Ministry of defence, Geraldo Quintäo whose office-taking speech inserted the Brazilian Armed Forces in the strategic scope of security and defence, not only in search of a greater interaction with Brazil’s neighbour countries but also for the defence of the Amazon as an strategic area: “its great dimensions and immense natural richness, still unexplored are demanding and intense training of the Armed Forces as a dissuasion force, to broaden and consolidate the presence of the State, keep permanent watch on the frontier areas and, in a civic and social work, integrate citizenship into the civil population of the remote areas”
In the practice, the Ministry of Defence, through the Army, Navy and Air force, has been occupying the Amazonic region. Army units were transferred to the region, the number of Navy patrol ships and Air-force planes has increased and the SIVAM project (Amazon Watch System) is being implemented, with the placement of fixed mobile radars to locate pirate airplanes in the service of narcotrafficants and smugglers of the region’s natural resources. For the Ministry of Defences, defending the Amazon is not only essential to maintain its integrity and territorial sovereignty, but also to aid the Brazilian scientific community in the development of the Amazonic biodiversity, aiming at benefits for the 20 million inhabitants of the region, besides the 140 million Brazilians in the rest of the country.
The miniature sheet was designed by Alberto Jose Lobo Ferreira Lima and included the elements that compose the block’s design, including the hand that protects the biodiversity: sketch the Brazilian flag in the central space. The central circle, besides composing one more element of the Brazilian flag, is a magnifier, showing the need of investigating the almost infinite natural resources. The Brazilian Navy ship on the right side is the OSWALDO CRUZ Hospital Assistance Ship, which takes part in the fleet of the so-called “Hope Ships” for the Amazon population living on the river banks and given emphasis to the military action in the Amazon responsible for the guarantee not only of the frontier security and prevention of the crimes against biodiversity, but also for the assistance to local population.
Brazil 2000 RS1.50 sg?, scott?
Source: Watercraft Philately. Wikipedia. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Brazil Postal information bulletin.