Speedboats (And Other Small Watercraft)

Here is the 15c value (Sc #251) from North Borneo's KGVI 1950 pictorial definitive series. Stamp depicts a small, traditional Malay boat and is inscribed "native prahu at Sandakan". Sandakan is a port city on the northeast coast of the island.

From gluedideas.com, "The kakap prahu is a small light boat, provided with a rudder oar, but with no other oars or sculls. It carries only one mast, with a single quadrangular sail."

On March 10, 1989 Finland issued a one-pane booklet of four different 1.90 mk stamps with a "mass sport" theme. One of these stamps (Facit #1078) depicts people in canoes and tandem (two-person) kayaks.

This January 14, 1987 sixty cent value (SG #1411) of New Zealand is from the Tourism set of six depicting outdoor activities available to visitors. This stamp shows life vest-wearing tourists in a jetboat descending one of NZ's fast-flowing rivers. A posting on page 9 of this thread explains the jetboat.

Cancellation is LINWOOD, a suburb/area of Christchurch.

On May 17, 1989 New Zealand issued a six-value set of stamps as the 2nd issue of its "NZ Heritage" series. The 80c value (SG #1508) of the set features whaling, and depicts a whaleboat.

From wikipedia, "A whaleboat or whaler is a type of open boat that is relatively narrow and pointed at both ends. It was originally developed for whaling, and later became popular for work along beaches, since it does not have to be turned around for beaching or refloating."

Here is the 80c value (SG #1527) from New Zealand's October 11, 1989 "Heritage" series (3rd issue) of 6 stamps. Stamp shows a man in a rowboat in a yacht harbor.

Two small, traditional rowboats and a Kelong (coastal dwelling on stilts) are depicted on the $1 value (SG #248) of Singapore's January 26, 1975 "Singapore Views" set of three stamps.

The 45c value (SG #1276) from New Zealand's October 6, 1982 Christmas set of three stamps depicts a surf life-saving boat. The crew appears to be rowing into psychedelic waters.

On September 28, 1990 the USA issued a horizontally se-tenant pair of 25c stamps (Sc #s 2506-7) featuring small boats of The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), two South Pacific Island nations with which it has special (defense) relationships. The FSM and RMI are both independent, sovereign nations and members of the United Nations. Both have a compact of free association with the USA.

The outrigger boats depicted are generally referred to as walaps, but wikipedia distinguishes three distinct types: 1.) korkor, a small sailing/rowing canoe used in atoll lagoons, 2.) typnol, a medium-sized sailing canoe used for short-distance voyaging over open water with crew of 2, and up to 10 passengers, and 3.) walap, a large, blue-water sailing canoe up to 30 meters in length holding up to 50 people and food supplies for up to 7 months.

Here is the USA's October 17, 1970 six cent stamp (Sc #1409) commemorating the sesquicentennial of the founding of Fort Snelling, on the upper Mississippi River. Fort Snelling was Minnesota's westernmost outpost, and a gateway to the great Northwest. A keelboat being pushed upstream with poles by its crew is pictured on the stamp.

From nps.gov, "When the crew powered a keelboat upstream and the river bottom was unsuitable for travel, a cordelle or towline several hundred feet long was attached to the keelboat and taken ashore by the men who then walked along pulling the boat behind them. The difficulties and expense of propelling a loaded keelboat upriver encouraged the search for other methods of transportation on the rivers, hence, the steamboat."

Nine of the ten men men who began the 1869 journey of exploration can be seen in three boats on this August 1, 1969 6c stamp (Sc #1374) of the USA. The stamp commemorate the centenary of this southwestern U.S. venture by John Wesley Powell's team.

From wikipedia, The Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, led by American naturalist John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), was the first thorough cartographic and scientific investigation of long segments of the Green and Colorado Rivers in the southwestern United States...Of the ten men who started from Green River Station, six completed the entire journey."

On September 20, 1968 the USA issued this 6c stamp (Sc #1356) commemorating the 300th anniversary of Father Jacques Marquette's explorations in the upper Midwest. Marquette (1637-1675) founded Michigan's first European settlement at Sault Sainte Marie. He and his party are shown in a birchbark canoe.

From thecanadianencyclopedia.com, "The birchbark canoe was the principal means of water transportation for Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands, and later voyageurs, who used it extensively in the fur trade in Canada."

The 3 lowest values of the Comoros Islands May 15, 1950 pictorial definitve set depict dhows on Anjouan Bay at the northern side of Anjouan (Ndzuwam) Island. The one franc stamp (Sc #32) is shown here.

A small fishing boat is shown on this March 25, 1998 local rate/bailiwick minimum (20p at issue date) stamp (Sc #626) of Guernsey. Stamp is from a booklet of 8 (2 designs x 4).

On July 4, 1973 the USA issued a se-tenant block of 4 stamps to commemorate the bicentenary of the Boston Tea Party. This event/incident occurred on the night of December 16, 1773 as 342 crates of tea owned by the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American colonists dressed as Mohawk warriors.

The lower two stamps (Sc #s 1482-3) of the block depict patriots in rowboats dunking the crates. The rowboats are of different configurations.

This se-tenant pair of 90 ore coil stamps was issued by Sweden on October 11, 1975 to commemorate the International Jamboree in Lillehammer, Norway. Stamp on the right (Facit #938) depicts Sea Scouts in canoes.