Tall Ships On Stamps

Italy
150th Anniversary of the Italian Navy
June 10, 2011
Set of four, one stamp depicts the navy training ship Amerigo Vespucci, named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci(1454 - 1512).

Poland
Tall Ships Race Gdynia 2009
June 19, 2009
The Tall Ships Race 2009 was held between July 2 and 5 in in Gdynia, Poland.

France
Sailboat masts 5 France II
June 9, 1973
The France II was a French sailing ship and the second one of that name. She was the second largest commercial merchant sailing ship ever built. She was 146.5 meters long and could carry 7,300 tons of cargo.
(engraver: Claude Durrens)

Mexico
The Cuauhtémoc Sail Training Vessel
November 4, 2007
ARM Cuauhtémoc is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy. She is the last of four sister ships built by the Naval Shipyards of Bilbao, Spain in 1982.

Here is an image of an engraved stamp depicting an 18th century gentleman and a mail ship bound for the West Indies, and issued by Spain on January 2, 1975 as one of a set of four stamps commemorating the 125th anniversary of Spanish postage stamps, Scott No. 1867.

- nethryk

Cyprus
Tall Ships
June 8, 2011
The stamp set shows a galleon, a caravel, and a brig.

Stamp of the USSR, 1971, showing the frigate Oryol, the first Russian-built warship.



Dunno if this qualifies as a "tall ship," though. Opinions?

what you are not sure?

Of course, who can ignore the 50c Canada Bluenose stamp, said by some to be the most beautiful stamp in the world!



I guess technically, this is not a "tall ship" as it is not square rigged, but it is one darned nice-looking stamp!

In the center of Saint Petersburg there is the Admiralty building with high gilded spire

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The spire is decorated with a gilded weather vane in the shape of the frigate "Orel" ("Eagle")

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Now the vane has become a symbol of the city

Argentina
South American Sails
February 20, 2010
Esmeralda is a steel-hulled four-masted barquentine tall ship of the Chilean Navy.
Libertad is a steel hulled, full rigged sailing ship that serves as a school vessel in the Argentine Navy.

Bulgaria
Tall Ships Regatta
August 25, 2011
The souvenir sheet features the Tall Ship Race of 2011: Waterford (Ireland) – Greenock (Scotland) – Lerwick (Shetland) – Stavanger (Norway) – Halmstad (Sweden).

Denmark
Sailing Ships
June 13, 2015
The stamp set features Kobenhavn (1921), Danmark (1932), Georg Stage (1934), and Fulton (1915).

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a caravel under sail, a lighthouse, the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Bari, Italy, and a mosque, designed by R. di Sanctis, printed by photogravure, and issued by Italy on August 21, 1950 to publicize the 14th Levant Fair, Scott No. 542.

- nethryk