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Maritime Topics on Stamps June / July 2008 stamps
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France, a souvenir sheet with six stamps, "Bateaux Celebres", famous ships.
From left top:
"Confiance", "Grande Hermine", "Boudeuse", "Astrolabe", "Hermione", "Boussole".
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Norway, a set with four stamps "History of Communication".
Among them two ships, the steamer "Børøysund" and the steamer "Oster".
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Pitcairns Islands, a souvenir sheet with four stamps, "Pitcairns Longboat History".
From left: "From 1880, Timber framed longboats", then "1983, last wooden longboat launched", next
"1990, To Henderson with full sail", then "1995, Diesel powered aluminium" and last "Oeno sunsets brought within reach".
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India, a souvenir sheet with four stamps "Indian Coast Guard".
The stamps show a fixed wing aircraft, helicopter,
hovercraft and ship. The ship is the Samar class 43 SANGRAM.
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Marshall Islands, a souvenir sheet with 12 stamps "History's Great Sailing Ships".
From left top are depicted:
HMS "Victory", La "Grande Hermine", USS "Constitution", "Fram", "Tovarisch I", "Ark" and "Dove",
"Rainbow", "Great Republic", HMS "Resolution", La "Dauphine", "Kruzenshtern", "Golden Hind".
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Sierra Leone, two se-tenants with six ship stamps each. This two sheets we have had in the past with the value "LE 300".
Now these values are markwed with a black bar and the values are now Le2800 and Le4000.
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Sao Tome & Principe, two souvenir sheets with six stamps and with one stamp "OS Submarinos".
Left top "Type XXI U-Boat Germany", then "K-21 Soviet Union", "U-Boat 530 and one Boat 1-52 Japan"
In the second row "S-Class submarine Royal Navy", "USS Tang, SS 306 USA" and "Delta 17 Soviet Union".
On the left sheet "U-Boat Type XXI Germany".
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Sao Tome & Principe, two souvenir sheets and a se-tenant with six stamps "Transportes Especiais".
Among the stamps a save and rescue boat. In the foreground a fireboat.
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Portugal Madeira, a set with four stamps about town and port of Funchal.
The stamp with the coat of arms is not depicted here.
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France, a single stamp with the port of La Rochelle.
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Russia, a small sheet "225 anniversary of the "Black Sea Fleet".
We see a memorial monument situated in the Sebastopol Bay and devoted to perished war/civil ships,
the figure on top is an eagle.
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Åland, a se-tenant with four stamps lighthouses.
We see Marhällan, Gustaf Dalén, Bogskär and Kökarsören.
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France, a souvenir sheet with 10 stamps "Portraits de Regions".
Among them this stamp "La cote de granit rose" with a lighthouse.
The tower on "cote de granit rose" (Pink granite coast) is located in
Ploumanach, town of Perros-Guirec, on the north coast of Britanny.
(Source: Jean-Louis Araignon)
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Netherlands, a personalised stamp with a poster of the Holland-America Line in the background.
She could be the "Rotterdam" or one of the both sisters "Volendam / Veensdam".
(Source: Peter Crichton)
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To show some more stamps and/or whole souvenir-sheets the pictures are high
compressed, so accuracy goes down.
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