I am only as good as my database k no skill in that.
Query: If, as that link suggests, mail was brought to the Islands by trading ships, would they not have had to have authority? thereby being an "R.M.S" royal Mail ship?
I would classify that ship in the image as a "tramp steamer' but carrying mail raises the query. perhaps the mail was so limited it did not qualify.
Rod, here is the Niuafoou Tonga souvenir sheet you were talking about, issued in 1986.
It is a beautiful detailed painting, so I assume it must be a real ship, but still have not found the name. It must be mentioned in the magazine article.
Perhaps further information could be found by searching on the original 1982 usage of the image in question. (The pictured sheet with the later usage appears to be 1996, for what its worth.)
(not my scan...see tonga2 on delcampe if interested)
Nice minisheet Collin, not sure I like the rouletted specimens.
I think we can narrow it down to an RMS of the NZ firm United Steam Ship Company of NZ
I would still like a higher res scan of the Tofua 1
Here is the Tofua 2 with enclosed bridge and superstructure So the painting either has to be an "artist's impression" of the Tofua 1, or a completly different ship. we shall continue to dig.
I am going to dissent. A few problems (Anchor position etc) can be explained by artist interpretation perhaps. To me there is too much that is similar, to dismiss.
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Posted 07/23/2010 7:47 pm
I think you solved it.
