Speedboats (And Other Small Watercraft)

Here are images of the two stamps in a set depicting sea rescue boats, designed and combined engraved by Sverre Morken and lithogravure, and issued by Norway on June 7, 1991 to commemorate the centenary of the Sea Rescue Society, Scott Nos. 993 & 994, Facit Nos. 1110 & 1111.

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Skomvær III


Colin Archer, 1893

German Torpedo Boat

Harbor police, engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., Ltd., and issued for use in Barbados on April 13, 1953, Scott No. 239.

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Dorey, engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., Ltd., and issued for use in British Honduras on February 14, 1938, Scott No. 122.

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Rescue boat and Danish flag, printed by photogravure, and issued by Israel on October 23, 1973 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the rescue by the Danes of the Jews in Denmark, Scott No. 529.

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Scott USA 2080 commemorating the silver jubilee of Hawaiian statehood issued 12 March 1984 and featuring an Eastern Polynesian voyaging canoe.

The New Zealand 2004 Extreme Sports has 2 'action' boating stamps

This stamp, entitled Bedok Reservoir, is from a 2012 10-stamp issue from Singapore on the theme of reservoirs. Scott 1542.

The 5c perf. 9.8 vertical Canoe was part of the Transportation issue. A brown, engraved, dull gum coil stamp was issued May 25, 1991 (Scott 2453) and a red, photogravure, shiny gum coil stamp on October 22, 1991 (Scott 2454).

In 1803 Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery to find a water route to the Pacific and explore the uncharted West.

The expedition began making its way up the Missouri aboard a 55-foot-long (17-meter-long) keelboat and two smaller pirogues.

I'm not certain but believe that the rendering on this stamp (Scott 1063), issued on July 28, 1954 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the expedition, is of one of the pirogues.

The stamp depicts Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea landing on the Missouri riverbank.

The Winslow Homer issue (December 15, 1962; Scott 1207) a depiction of Homer's painting Breezing Up, features a catboat. The stamp was designed by Victor S. McCloskey, Jr.

Canoeing on Lake Tana, engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., and issued by Ethiopia on February 10, 1951, Scott No. 292a. Inset portrait: Haile Selassie I (1892-1975), Emperor of Ethiopia.

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Issued on November 17, 1966, the Mary Cassatt issue (Scott 1322) features a rendering of her painting "The Boating Party" done by Robert J. Jones.

José Martí (1853-1895) was a Cuban revolutionary and poet. Here is an image of an engraved stamp depicting Martí and some of his fellow revolutionaries rowing to shore at Playitas, Cuba on April 11, 1895, and issued by Cuba on November 10, 1948 as one of a set of two stamps honoring Martí, Scott No. 419.

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This stamp (Scott 1325) was issued on July 4, 1967 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Erie Canal ground-breaking ceremony at Rome, N.Y. The canal links New York City and Lake Erie. The stamp shows the stern of an early canal boat; it was designed by George Samerjan.