Arromanches
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:07 pm
Algeria issued in 1949 a pair of stamps in aid of a French naval charity, the Oeuvres Sociales de la Marine that exists to help distressed families of naval and merchant seamen.
This Algerian stamp shows the aircraft-carrier Arromanches. The vessel was built for the Royal Navy by Vickers - Armstrongs Ltd , at Newcastle-on-Tyne and was launched as H.M.S. Colossus on September 1943, being completed on December 16, 1944. Her complement is 1,350, she carries 24 aircraft, has a speed of 25 knots and is armed with 24 anti-aircraft guns. In 1946 she was loaned to the French Navy for five years to train French naval air pilots.
SG289 Sea Breezes 11/51