Maritime Topics on Stamps

February Stamps 2021

Jersey



Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda, a set of 4 stamps, 150 years floating dock.
On June 24, 1869, HM Floating Dock Bermuda began its 3,985-mile journey to the island, eventually arriving on July 27.
This set was published in 2019. But it was only discovered by chance by Seemotive.


Canada
Canada, a single stamp, a fun Viking boat.
Inscription:
L'Anse aux Meadows about 1000 CE.


Monaco
Monaco
Monaco, twosin gle stamps.
Left a stamp for 100 years of the International Hydrographic Organization.
The International Hydrographic Organization was founded in 1921 by 19 states. At the invitation of Prince Albert I, the seat was established in Monaco.

The stamp on the right is reminiscent of the Kiel Week 1914.
Pictured are Prince Albert I of Monaco and the German Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Albert I, defender of peace, took part in the Kiel races from 1898 onwards.


Tristan
Tristan da Cunha, a set of two stamps, "Sword of Peace".
The Sword-of-Peace prize donated the British razor blade manufacturer Wilkinson Sword. The ships on the stamps are SAS Simon Van Der Stel and RFA Ennerdale. They were awarded with this prize.


Portugal
Portugal
Portugal, two stamps for rescue on sea. Left by the navy and right by the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR).


Russia
Russia, a single stamp for 250 years of Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770-1846).
He was a German-Baltic admiral in the Russian fleet and led the First Russian circumnavigation of the world on the commercial frigate "Nadeschda" (left in the background).
"Kruzenshtern" in Russian.


Sweden, a set of five machine stamps.

Among them these two maritime motifs. A passenger ship and the loading of containers.

Sweden


Turkey
Turkey, a single stamp with a map of the Marmara Sea and the Bosphorus.


Hongkong, a sheet with four stamps with the Hongkong harbor Victoria.
Hongkong


Dominica
Dominican Republic, a sheet of three stamps, 100 years of recognition by the Dominican Republic Argentina. Pictured is the Argentine cruiser ARA Nueve de Julio and the Argentine President J.H. Yrigoyen.


Uruguay
Uruguay, a sheet with two stamps, 50 years of the Tsakos Group, a Greek shipping company.
As you can see, the shipping company also has industrial plants in Uruguay.


Liberia, a stamp for 50 years of Tsakos Group.
The picture shows the LNG tanker "Maria Energy". The ship sails under the flag of Liberia.
Liberia


USA
USA, a stamp with the "Mayflower". 400 years ago the ship reached Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts.


Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises, a single stamp with a "ship in a bottle". The ship in the bottle is supposed to French research and supply ship "Marion Dufresne".
TAAF


TAAF
TAAF, a brand with the Aviso "La Meurthe" off the Crozet Islands. Aviso was a fast, small warship for communication.


Madagaskar
Madagascar, a souvenir sheet with four stamps on 80 years of the sinking of "Bismarck".

Below the stamps are shown enlarged.

Madagaskar
Madagaskar


Saint Pierre et Miquelon, a single stamp with the cutter Saint-Yves.
SPM


Tonga
Tonga, a set of 20 stamps, tourism.
Among them these two maritime stamps.


NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
Netherlands, 5 individual stamps with cruise ships.
Depicted are MS Rotterdam, MS Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary and an advertising poster.


Russia
Russia, two stamps with lighthouses from the Crimean peninsula.
Depicted are the towers of Yeni-Kale and Meganom.


Ukraine, a sheet of 6 stamps, lighthouses of Ukraine.
Pictured are Yevpatoriiskyi, Byriuchyi, Illinskyi, Stanislav-Adzhyholskyi rear lighthouse, Mehanomskyi, Zmiinyi.
Ukraine


Liberia
Liberia
Liberia, two sheets with lighthouses.
Depicted are left Lindesnes / Norway, Grotta / Iceland, Portofino / Italy, Lista / Norway and right Peggy Point / Canada, Cape Blanco / USA, Kjeungs Kjaer / Norway.


Maledives
Maledives
Maldives, two sheets with lighthouses.
Pictured are on the left Portland Head / USA, Tranöy / Norway, Kjeungs Kjaer / Norway, Fanad Head / Ireland and right East Quoddy / Canada, Lindau / Germany, Choptank River / USA.


S. Tome
S. Tome
Sao Tome & Principe, two sheets with lighthouses.
Pictured are on the left Gjaes Lingan, Dyna, Portland Head, Utsira and right Terningen, Lindesnes.





Liberia
Liberia
Liberia, two sheets to 75 years of the Battle of Okinawa.
Here from the first sheet the maritime stamp with the USS Idaho. On the right sheet there are the USS Chilton and the Japanese Yamato pictured.


Maledives
Maledives
Maledives
Maledives, two sheets to 75 years of "Black Friday".
The German destroyer Z31 is shown enlarged from the left sheet.

On February 9, 1945, a force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffered one Attack on the German destroyers Z31 and Z33 large losses.
The operation was called "Black Friday" by the Allied survivors. (Wikipedia)


SL
SL
Sierra Leone, two sheets to Jacques Cousteau.
On the left sheet you can see the Alcyone and Denise. On the right sheet his Calypso and the Anorep1.


SL
SL
Sierra Leone, two sheets to Jacques Cousteau.
On the left sheet you can see the Alcyone and Denise. On the right sheet his Calypso and the Anorep1.


SL
SL
Sierra Leone, two sheets with submarines.
Left the Vanguard Class, Type212, HMS "M2", Yasen Class and right USS Robalo, Gato Class.


SL
SL
Sierra Leone, two sheeets with icebreakers.
Left USCGC Polar Sea, CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent, RV Polarstern, NS 50 Let Pobedy and right USCGC Mackinaw.


SL
SL
Sierra Leone, two sheets, 500 years ago Magellan reached the Pacific.
Pictured is the Victoria, which finished the circumnavigation.


S. Tome
S. Tome
Sao Tome e Principe, two sheets about the Titanic.


Togo
Togo
Togo, two sheets with aircraft carrier.
Left USS Lexington, HMS Ark Royal, Bearn, HMS Indomitable and right Ryujo, HMS Pretoria Castle.


Togo
Togo
Togo, two sheets with icebrfeakers.
Left the Murmansk, NS 50 Let Üobedy, RV Araon, Kapitan Khlebnikov and right Ivan Kruzenshtern.


Tajikistan
Tajikistan, three sheets to 75 years of the victory in the Pacific. Among them these maritime motifs with the USS Missouri and the USS West Virginia.


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