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Maritime Topics on Stamps
November / December Stamps 2018
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Ascension Island, a set with two stamps, RMS St. Helena.
Left there is the "St. Helena I", right the "St. Helena II".
RMS - Royal Mail Ship
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British Antarctic Territory, a set with four stamps, RRS Sir David Attenborough.
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In October 2016 the keel was laid, launched in July 2018 and the research vessel goes into operation
in the coming year 2019.
RRS - Royal Research Ship
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Spain, a single stamp of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018.
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Panama, a set with four stamps, channel extension.
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Panama, here the associated souvenir sheet for the channel extension.
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Polynesia Francaise, a single stamp with the sailor Alain Colas.
He was the first to sail around the earth on a multi-hulled boat.
In 1978, 40 years ago, he (disparition) disappeared in a hurricane at the Azores.
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Bulgarien, a sheet with Khan Tervel.
He ruled Bulgaria in the 8th century.
In 717-718 he led a war against the Arabs, which also took place at sea.
That should be displayed on this sheet (?).
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Wallis & Futuna, commissioning of the digital cable between Wallis and Samoa.
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Wallis & Futuna, see above, a se-tenant of two stamps with remarks.
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Curacao, a set with two stamps and a sheet with one stamp with the passenger ship "Freewinds".
Since 1988 the Scientology organization has been using the ship as a training center.
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St.Helena, a set and a souvenir sheet about the last voyage of the RMS "St. Helena".
The ship was built in 1989, operated as a mail ship until 2018 and was then sold to the
MNG Maritime.
Now the name is "MNG Tahiti".
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Mexico, a se-tenant of two stamps, "comision interamericana de puertos", American port authority
and a lighthouse.
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Mexico, one stamp, 100 anniversary of the Agente Aduanal, that is the customs agency.
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Montserrat, a sheet with four stamps, "First Air Mail Centenary".
Among them this stamp with the
HMS "Dorsetshire".
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Cuba, one stamp, 55th anniversary of the Cuban socialist revolution.
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Maldives, two sheets 290th anniversyry of James Cook.
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Maldives, a sheet "Military Vehicles". Among them the USS "Zumwalt", a new destroyer type.
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Sierra Leone, a sheet about steamers.
The stamp depicts the Hapag Steamer "St. Louis" with the captain Gustav Schröder.
In 1939 he rescued 906 German Jews for the time from an access by the Nazi party.
Nevertheless, only "for now", it was a random walk, read Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Schr%C3%B6der
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Maldives, two sheets with lighthouses.
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Curacao, a se-tenant of six stamps with lighthouses.
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Faroe, a set with four stamps, lighthouses.
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Marshall Islands, a se-tenant of 10 stamps "National Parks".
Among them the Park Biscayne with this lightouse.
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Germany, some individual stamps with museum ships.
Depicted are the passenger ship Stadt Kiel, the buoy tender Bussard, the freighter Cap San Diego
and the icebreaker Stettin.
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Jersey, a set with six stamps about sailor knots.
Anyone who has ever gone to sea will surely recognize them all and enjoy these stamps.
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Note:
Further awful new editions of African states
are not shown here intentionally! For their broadening, this page can not be a platform.
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