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Maritime Topics on Stamps
April Stamps 2015
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Australia, a set with four stamps, Era of Sail, Clipper Ships.
Depicted are from left top "Frances Henty", "Phoenician", "Arabian" and
"Monkchester".
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Peru, a single stamp with a reed boat.
"Caballito de totora: Is a one man reed craft found on several mountain lakes" (Auke Palmhof).
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Palau, a souvenir sheet with five stamps, Camouflage of WW 1.
Left the complete sheet, the row above with the ships enlarged.
The ships name are cognizable on the stamps.
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Maldives, a souvenir sheet with four stamps, Transport History, Special Transport.
The maritime stamp left bottom you see enlarged right above. She is the Canadian Coast Guard
boat NGCC "Private Robertson VC".
NGCC - Navire de la Garde Cotiere Canadienne.
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Maldives, a souvenir sheet with four stamps, Transport History, Special Transport.
Below the Coast Guard helicopter there is a RB-M depicted, Response Boat - Medium.
Since 2008 this boat-type will be delivered to the Coast Guard.
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Maldives, a souvenir sheet with one stamp, Transport History, Maritime Timeline.
On the stamp the cruise liner "Majesty of the Seas", left top the "Santa Maria"
of Columbus and right the "Titanic".
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Maldives, a souvenir sheet with one stamp, Transport History, Maritime Timeline.
Right the stamps of the sheet are enlarged.
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Maldives, two souvenir sheets with one stamp, Transport History, Submarines.
Left the stamps of the right sheet are enlarged.
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Iraq, a set with four stamps, Army Day.
This patrol boat is representing the Navy.
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Vietnam, a set with two stamps, coast protection.
Thus this maritime stamp.
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Chad, a stamp with the contrivancer Rudolf Diesel, his Diesel engine and
the Danish motorvessel "Selandia".
She was the first vessel with a Diesel engine.
You can see this stamp on two different sheets.
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Uruguay,a set with two stamps 150th anniversary defence of the town Paysandu.
Left the corvette "Parnahyba" is depicted.
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Ascension Island, a set with six stamps, 350th Anniversary of the Royal Marines.
Among them this tow stamps with a maritime "touch".
Left "1664, Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot", beside a
"2014 Royal Marines Commando".
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Belgium, a single stamp with a picture of Thorgal, a Comic Viking, now created on a stamp.
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Gibraltar, a set with six stamps,
World War 1.
Among them a stamp with warships.
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Maldives, two sheets withbtigether five stamps, 70th Anniversary of the D-Day, Battle of
Normandy.
In front of their war units are depicted: Eisenhower, Montgomery, Bradley and Ramsay.
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Here again on the stamp Eisenhower, who was the Commander-in-Chief.
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Micronesia, a souvenir sheet with four stamps, construction of the Transsiberia railroad.
Among them this stamp with a paddle steamer on the Angara river (affluent to Jenissei).
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St.Helena, a set with three stamps and a sheet with one stamp,
25th Anniversary of the Launch of the RMS "St. Helena".
RMS - Royal Mail Ship
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New Zealand, three in size different sheets, 1915, the Spirit of ANZAC.
ANZAC - Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
Below the sheet the two maritime stamps are enlarged.
Left landing at ANZAC Cove, April 1915, in the background landing crafts.
Right the hospital ship "Maheno".
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Bequia, two sheets with together seven stamps, WW I Submarines.
Below the stamps from the left sheet are enlarged, types of the subs and names are
readable.
On the right small sheet we see the HMS "E3" of the E-Class.
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Thailand, a set with three stamp and a small sheet with one stamp, the Navy of Thailand.
The corvettes "Pinklao", "Phutthayotla Chulalok" and
"Phutthaloetla Naphalai" are depicted.
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Thailand, the small sheet with the helicopter- and aircraft carrier HTMS "Chakri Naruebet".
We have shown this picture on the last stamp page, but the stamp belongs to the above set.
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Togo, two souvenur sheets with five stamps, Special Transport, Red Cross.
The rescue boat left ist right above enlarged.
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On this sheet another rescue craft is depicted.
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Brasilia, a sheet with two stamps, the Archipelago Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo.
There are five islands in front off the Braslian northeast coast.
On the island Belmonte there is a lighthouse.
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Note:
Several sheets from different states on this page are not worth collecting!
These countries only want to earn money with stamps.
Nevertheless, here are a few to show if it is around a motive.
This is often true at lighthouses.
Every collector can decide whether he is interested in these issues or not.
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Niger, five stamps with lighthouses.
Depicted are the towers of Castle Hill /Rhode Island, Chicago / Illinois,
Thomas Point Shoal / Maryland, Portland Head / Maine und rechts Peggys Point, East Quoddy and
L'ile Sambro, all three in Canada.
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Sao Tome e Pricipe, two sheets with lighthouses. Depicted are Kap Hatteras / USA,
Peggy Point / Canada, Ilha Brier / Canada, Portlan / USA, Londres / Canada and
Newport / USA.
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Togo, two sheets with lighthouses. Depicted are above Portland Head / USA and Feu /
Argentinien.
Left Haut-Fond Prince / Canada, Felgueiras / Portugal, Hornby /
Australia, Castle Hill / USA and Peggy Point / Canada.
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Austria, again some maritime individual stamps.
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Germany, also constantly individual stamps are produced.
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