Submarines On Stamps

Eagle (Orzel)



Warship submarine Orze³ (Eagle) of the Republic of Poland. Stamp was issued by Polish exile government in London.
Many of Polish soldiers escaped to Great Britain which was in desperate need of trained and experienced airmen during the Battle of Britain.

Hi jorgesurcl,
submarine in your post https://goscf.com/t/968&whichpage=2#303911
is German, attaching by Polish aircraft from one of four squadrons formed by Polish pilots in Great Britain.

The First Malaysian Submarine



The First Malaysian Submarine - Tunku Abdul Rahman was built for the Royal Malaysian Navy
in Spain by DCNS French naval defence company one of Europe`s leading shipbuilders.
It is diesel-electric attack submarine.
It is named after the Malaysian first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj.

Not that many Polish submarine stamps. We've had the two Polish Govt in Exile ones, here's the rest

1970 commemorating WWII Polish Warships, part of a set of 3
ORP Orzel (previously commemorated by the Polish Govt in Exile)


1973 One of the Polish Inventor Stefan Drzewiecki's designs from the 1870's.


Finally, from the 2005 M/S commemorating My Favourite Reading, a
fanciful rendering of Captain Nemo's submarine, Nautilus, from Jules Verne's novel, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea"

primoz, thanks for the info about stamp issued by Polish exile government!

ROMANIA 1936
Delfinul (Dolphin) was a Romanian submarine (completed 1930- out of service 1944) that served in the Black Sea during the Second World War.

125th Anniversary of the launching of the Peral submarine - 2013



Isaac Peral y Caballero (1851-1895) a renowned scientist, soldier, and sailor of the Spanish Armada invented the first electric propulsion submarine.
The submarine was constructed in 1888. It measured 22 meters in length and 2.87 metres in the beam. It was powered by two 30 horsepower engines.
The Peral submarine is restored and is on-show to the public in the Promenade of Cartagena, Spain.

Submarine 56



Submarine C-56 was the most effective Soviet submarine in World War II.
It was launched in 1939 and joined the Pacific Fleet.
From 1975 it is a museum submarine in Vladivostok, Russia.

Indian President`s Fleet Review 2006, Visakhapatnam



The Fleet Review by Indian president is tradition inherited from the Royal Navy.
50 ships and 3 submarines participated on reviev.

Submarine Lembit



Submarine Lembit was built for Estonian army in 1936 in shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness in England.
In 1940 was taken over by the Soviets and became a part of the Soviet Baltic Fleet.
It had the crew of 33.
Now is in the Estonian Maritime Museum.

Micronesia 2014 WWI Submarines.

Soviet submarine S-13



The S-class submarines were part of the Soviet Navy`s underwater fleet during World War II.
It was nicknamed Stalinets - follower of Stalin.
It was a type of diesel attack submarine, 77 m long with crew of about 45.

HMS Dreadnought



HMS Dreadnought was the United Kingdom`s first nuclear-powered submarine.
She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II in 1960.

ITALY 2013
International Gathering of Submariners in Catania, Sicily, Italy (May 2013)

Bars - 1912



Ivan Grigorevich Bubnov (1872-1919) was a Russian designer of submarines for the Imperial Russian Navy.
In 1912 he designed the submarine Bars armed with 14 torpedoes and a crew of 33.
The submarine sunk in May 1917.

Two stamps with submarines...

Greece 1999



Pitcairn Islands 1993

The Beatles: Yellow Submarine