Maritime Topics on Stamps May / June 2009
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New Zealand, a set with six stamps, "Lest we forget".
On the ship stamp HMS "Achilles" is depicted.
ANZAC means Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
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Austria, a single stamp, centenary of the steamer "Thalia".
The ship is illustrated on the lake Woerthersee.
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SMS Fürst Bismarck
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SS Windsor Castle
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HMS Beagle
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HMS Endeavour
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HMS Victory
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HMS Edinburgh
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Vasco da Gama
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British Indian Ocean Territory, a set with seven stamps, Seafaring and Exploration.
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Mary Rose and Endurance
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Tristan da Cunha,
a set with six stamps,
Seafaring and Exploration.
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Cutty Sark and Suomen Joutsen
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RFA Lyme Bay and MS Explorer
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Gibraltar, a set with six stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp,
Centenary of Naval Aviation.
We see here the stamps with ships.
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Czech Republic, a souvenir sheet with one stamp,
protection of the polar region. Beside the inhabitants we see a trawler.
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Australian Antarctic Territory, a souvenir sheet with four stamps, South Magnetic Pole, 1909 - 2009.
The approximate position in January 1909 is pointed out.
On 16th January 1909 Ernest Shackleton reached the magnetic south pole.
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St. Helena, a souvenir sheet with ten stamps, Henry VIII.
Among them this maritime stamp with the "Mary Rose".
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Guinea, two souvenir sheets, each with one stamp, 400 anniversary of Quebec.
Thereby this stamp with Jacques Cartier, who built a fort near by of todays Quebec.
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Aland, a single stamp, Diving. Aquanauts at a wreck are depicted.
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Ascension, a souvenir sheet and a set with each eight stamps "Fly Navy 100 Years".
Among them a stamp with a Japanese man of war, "Corsair bombing Japanese warship".
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Falkland Islands, a souvenir sheet with one stamp and a set with four stamps
"Centenary of Naval Aviation". On the sheet we see the carrier HMS "Hermes".
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South Georgia, a set with four stamps, "Centenary of Naval Aviation".
From left top the following war ships are depicted: HMS Exeter, HMS Plymouth, HMS Protector
and HMS Lancaster.
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Spain, a se-tenant with six stamps, lighthouses.
From left top: Porto Colom/Mallorca, Higuera/Huelva, Igeldo/Guipozcoa,
Arinaga/Gran Canaria, Torre de Hercules/A Coruna, Torrox/Malaga.
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Guinea, a souvenir sheet with six stamps, "Les Phares dans l'Art", lighthouse pictures with
their painters.
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Guinea, three souvenir sheets, each with one stamp, "Les Phares dans l'Art",
lighthouse pictures with their painters.
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Darwin / Beagle and shipping on the lake Constance
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Painting of H. Sedmik
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Emperor Wilhelm II with the Hohenzollern, launching Bismarck
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Austria, some personalized stamps.
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Port of Antwerp
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Film Titanic
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Freedom of the Seas
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Disney Wonder / Disney Magic
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Netherlands, some personalized stamps.
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Germany, one personalized stamp with the submarine U-34.
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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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