St Pierre et Miquelon did issue in 2005 a set of two stamps se-tenant of 2 Euro, of the port of St Pierre in 1928, with many ships in port, mostly the ships are not named only on the left stamp is one steamer, what is given that she is the PRO PATRIA.
In 1999 a stamp was issued by SPM with the PRO PATRIA, but she cannot be the ship that is on a stamp, which depict the St Pierre port of 1828, she was lost in 1918 under the name PERCÉSIEN.
An other ship sailing under the name PRO PATRIA in 1928 and owned in St Pierre, I found in Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1905. I believe she is the vessel depict.
Built as a cargo vessel under yard No. 6 by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Troon, U.K. for the British & Irish Steam Packet Co. Ltd., Dublin.
Launched under the name CALSHOT.
Tonnage 549 gross, dim. 178.5 x 27.1ft.
One triple expansion steam engine ?hp, speed ?
June 1905 delivered to owners.
1914 Sold to La Morue Française et Sécheries de Fécamp, St Pierre, renamed PRO PATRIA.
02 March 1923 she was disabled in the ice in a position 70 miles from St Pierre, she lost three blades of her screw and was already in the ice for one week; her 10 passengers and crew were running low on fresh water. The PRO PATRIA was on a voyage from Halifax from where she sailed on 20 February to St Pierre. The Canadian icebreaker STANLEY came to her aid, but became herself caught in an ice field 50 miles from Louisburg.
04 March 1923 after the PRO PATRIA drifted with the ice for a distance of 75 miles the STANLEY reached her and took her in tow to St Pierre.
1928 Sold to La Morue Française, St Pierre, not renamed.
1933 Sold to E. Passalacqua, Genoa, Italy, not renamed, when he bought her she was re-engined with one motor.
29 December 1942 during a night air raid on the port of Sfax, Tunisia she was bombed and sank.
Salved after World War II and repaired.
1948 Sold to J.C.Hamlin, Famagusta, Cyprus and renamed DORA P
1950 Sold to Cia. Nav. De Comercio Dora, Puerto Limon (N. Papalios & S Petrovits), Costa Rica, not renamed.
On a voyage from Mauritius to Durban loaded with empty drums and gas cylinders, she caught fire in the engine room on 17 April 1950 in a position 30 47S 31 50E.
She was towed to Durban but declared “constructive total loss”.
09 July 1951 towed out from Durban and scuttled with gunfire off the port.
Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1905. http://researchers.imd.ncr.ca/~hillb/ic ... 3March.htm