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Maritime Topics on Stamps
July 2009
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Åland, a set with two stamps " 50 years passenger ferries".
Since 1959
there is a ferry transfer between Åland and their neighbour countries.
On the top stamp the SS "Viking" is depicted.
On the stamp below a newbuilding, going in commision this year; therefore he has no name.
She will be a sistership of the "VIKING XPRS".
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Norway, a set with two stamps "submarine branch centenary".
On top we see Norways first submarine "Kobben", later on renamed to A-1 and
below a boat of the Ula class.
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Cocos & Keeling Islands, Australia, a set with four stamps, quater centenary visit
of the Cocos Islands.
On this maritime stamp we see "1609 Captain William Keeling's sighting".
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Gibraltar, a set with eight stamps " King Henry VIII".
Among them a stamp with the "Mary Rose".
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Great Britain, a souvenir sheet with four stamps "The Age of the Tudors".
On the left stamp the "Mary Rose" is depicted, right we see Sir Francis Drake.
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Pitcairn Island, a se-tenant of four stamps
"Return to Pitcairn, 150th Anniversary".
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Georgia, a single stamp "150 years Poti seaport".
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Germany, a single stamp centenary of the railway ferries between Sassnitz and Trelleborg.
Left the ferry "Deutschland" and right the "Preussen" is depicted.
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Germany, a set with two stamps of the lighthouse series.
We see the towers of Norderney and Dornbusch.
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Comoros, a souvenir sheet with six stamps "Navigators of the Antiquity".
From left top are depicted: Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus,
James Cook, Marco Polo and Amerigo Vespucci.
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Comoros, a souvenir sheet with one stamp "Navigators of the Antiquity".
On the stamp we can recognize Christopher Columbus,
left standing James Cook.
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Guinea Bissau, a souvenir sheet with one stamp "Charles Robert Darwin".
The nature explorer Darwin and die HMS "Beagle" are depicted.
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Poland, a small sheet with one stamp "Gdynia 2009".
We see the Polish fullrigger and training vessel "Dar Mlodziezy".
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Delfsail
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Titanic
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White Star Line
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Titanic
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Netherlands, some personalized stamps.
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Preview :
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands,
a set with 12 stamps about Ernest Henry Shackleton.
This set will be issued at the 14th August, 2009.
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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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