Belgium issued a set a 4 stamps and one label in 1988 all of 10Fr. on the label is the inscription “Houdt de zee schoon” (Keep the sea clean)
The set depicts two fishing vessels the SNIPE and the ASSANAT, a cross channel ferry and a cargo vessel, both have till so far not been identified.
The ASSANAT was built in 1964 under the name ELDORADO Fish No. Z 582 as a wooden shrimp cutter.
Tonnage 49 grt., dim. 19.80 x 5.40m.
Powered by 3-cyl. Anglo Belgian Corporation (ABC) 145 hp. 3MDX diesel engine, manufactured at Gent.
Registered at Zeebrugge.
She was used for fishing on shrimps from Zeebrugge along the Belgium coasts, and I believe mostly used for day-fisheries, sailed in the morning and returned in the afternoon.
She was later renamed in BEAUFORT V and ASSANAT still under fishing No Z 582.
As ASSANAT owned by Versluis-Savels.
28 April 1998 she was deleted from the Belgium fishing fleet.
2001 She returned again in service owned by Willy Versluys, Oostende under the name CRANGON.
Used as a pleasure shrimp fish-cutter for daytrips bookings, can accommodate 12 persons include the crew.
http://www.crangon.be
The wooden fishing cutter 0 148 is the SNIPE ( named after a juvenile gull) registered in Ostend, Belgium, built in 1958 by the shipyard of Deneye for Bogaert at Ostende.
Tonnage 55.3 grt., dim. 20.60 x 6.00m.
One ABC diesel engine 221 hp. when she was built she did have a 150 hp ABC diesel engine, later replaced by the stronger one.
2005 Still in service as fishing vessel owned by C de Blauwe, Oostende.
Belgium 1988 10Fr. sg 2936/39
Source: Houten visserschepen aan de Belgische kust. Some web-sites.