Maritime Topics on Stamps

March Stamps 2016

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Isle of Man
Isle of Man, a souvenir sheet with two stamps, 100. anniversary battle of Skagerrak.
Depicted are the admirals Jellicoe and Scheer and the vice admirals Beatty and Hipper.


GB
GB
Great Britain, a set with six stamps, 500 years of the creation of the Royal Mail by Henry VIII.
Among them two maritime stamps, a Packet Ship and River Transport.
The river postman (or woman) received and delivered mail to the moored ships.


BAT
Shackleton and always again Shackleton!
British Antarctic Territory, a se-tenant of six stamps, Shackleton and his Endurance.


Roos D.
Roos D.
Ross Dependency, two small sheets with together six stamps, Imperial Transantarctic Expedition, Shackleton and the Endurance.


NL
NL
Netherlands, two sheets with each five stamps "Mooi Nederland", beautiful Netherlands. Among them left a rowing boat and the lighthouse Marken, rigth a fishing boat and the lighthouse Urk.


Israel
Greek
Israel and Greece, a joint issue,
Haifa and Thessaloniki Ports.


Togo, a sheet with two stamps, great sailing ships.
Pictured are figureheads and other decorations on the bow and stern.
Togo


Anguilla
Anguilla, a sheet with five stamps, Boat Race Champions. Pictured are the champion boats of the race around the island.


Gambia
Gambia, two souvenir sheets, Shipwrecks.
Depictedc are above the "Vasa", "Costa Concordia", "Dona Paz", "Lusitania", "Andrea Doria" and "Titanic".
Right the USS "Arizona" at Pearl Harbor with the memorial above the wreck.
Gambia


Ascension
Ascension Island, a se-tenant of four stamps, Britains Longest Reigning Monarch, Queen Elizabeth.
On this maritime stamp she is to be seen at Diamond Jubilee 2012 with the "Spirit of Chartwell".
Faroese, a sheet with two stamps, the sinking of the "Westerbeek". She was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC - Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie).
On the way home the master wanted to sail around Scotland west and north to reach the North Sea. Here the ship crashed on the rocks of the Faroe Islands.
Färöer


Jersey
Jersey, a sheet with six stamps, 75th Anniversary, Royal Air Force, Search and Rescue.
Great Britain, a set with six automat stamps, Royal Mail Heritage Transport. Among them one maritime stamp with a Falmouth Packet Ship, 1820s.
GB


Italy
Italy, a single stamp, "Palio Del Golfo Della Spezia".
Every year a rowing race take place in La Spezia.
Guinea, a sheet with four stamps "Special Transport". Among them this stamp with a life boat and a life raft.
Guinea


Mocambique
Mocambique
Mocambique, two sheets wth together five stamps, "Special Transport".
From the first sheet only the two top stamps, right the whole sheet. It is to concern that the boats are US Coast Guard units.


Maldives
Maldives
Maledives, two souvenir sheets with together five stamps, Tall Ships. Depicted are left the "Christiann Radich", "Dar Mlodziezy", "Georg Stage" and "Belem".
Right on the sheet the "Amerigo Vespucci" and on the stamp the "Sedov".


Liberia
Liberia, a sheet with 20 stamps, Royal Navy Ships of World War I.
Here the sheet is separated in two pictures.
Depicted are HMS Algerine, HMS Amethyst, HMS Cardiff, HMS Dartmouth, HMS Fantome, HMS Goliath, HMS Hildebrand and HMS Laburnum.
Liberia
Depicted are HMS Malaya, HMS Kinfauns Castle, HMS Orcoma, HMS Renown, HMS Adventuress, SS Himalaya, SS Patuca, RFA Bacchus, SS Alsatian, SS Arlanza, SS Caronia and SS Empress of Britain.


Japan
Japan, a souvenir sheet with five stamps. Among them this stamp with a lighthouse.


Guinea
Guinea Bissau, two sheets witht together five stamps, lighthouses.
Depicted are the towers of Lindau, Peggy, Hercules, Portland and Punta Penna.
Guinea


Norge
Norway, two lighthouse stamps of the year 2012 are issued in a new edition.
Depicted are the towers of Kavringen and Medfjordbaen.


Lux
Luxembourg, a set with three stamps, among them 25 years Luxembourg shipping register and 50 years of Mertert harbor.


Denmark, a set of two stamps "Great Dane". On one stamp the shipowner Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is depicted, in the background the container vessel "Emma Maersk".
Issue date 31. March 2016.
Norge


Germany
Germany, a set with two stamp, treasures in German museums.
Among them this stamp with a frigate of ivory.
Issue date 7th April.


Ressel
Ressel
Austria, a special stamp with the originator of the ship propeller, Josef Ressel.


Norway, an individual stamp with the "Prinsesse Ragnhild".
Norge


Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany, four individual stamps with the EGV "Berlin", "München", "Herald of free Enterprise" and the Kiel Week emblem 2016.



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