Ship Stamps

Here is an image of a stamp depicting the Territories' first chartered freighter, the Italo Marsano, designed and engraved by René Quillivic, and issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on January 1, 1993, Scott No. 191.

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U.S. #620 1925 Norse-American Plate Block of 8. Honoring the 100th anniversary of Norwegian immigration. The ship pictured is the "Viking", which was featured at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

The Hellenic Navy sloop-of-war Kartería (#922;#945;#961;#964;#949;#961;#943;#945;: "Perseverance"), built in 1825 in an English shipyard, and in active service from 1826 to 1831 (during the Greek War of Independence), was the first steam-powered warship to be used in combat operations in history. The 233-ton vessel was propelled by paddles powered by two small steam engines. Kartería also had four masts to cruise under sail, but then switch to steam-power for better maneuvering during combat. The sloop was armed with eight heavy-caliber 68-pounder guns. Here is an image of a stamp depicting Kartería under sail, printed by lithography, and issued by Greece in 1971, Scott No. 1015.

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Port of Douala, an airmail stamp designed and engraved by Michel Monvoisin, and issued by Cameroun on June 5, 1968 as one of a set of five stamps publicizing economic development, Scott No. C106.

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The Humaitá was one of two gunboats built by Cantieri Navali SA Odero, Genoa, Italy, and delivered in May 1931. The Humaitá displaced 636 tons (865 at full load), and served as a flagship of the Paraguayan Navy during the Chaco War (1932-1935), fought between Bolivia and Paraguay. Here is an image of a stamp depicting the Humaitá, printed by typography (letterpress), and issued by Paraguay in 1931, Scott No. 319, plus an image of a photo of this warship taken in 1932.

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Dock cranes loading a ship, rail cars, and a map of the port of Djibouti, designed and engraved by Robert Cami, and issued for use in Somali Coast on June 4, 1956 to publicize France's Fund for Social and Economic Investment and Development (FIDES), Scott No. 268.

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US Scott UX122 "Yorkshire, Black Ball Line, Packet Ship, circa 1850" postcards with various philatelic pictorial (Steam)Ship Cancels:

Here are images of the six stamps in a set commemorating Russian shipping, designed by Nikolai Kruglov, printed by lithography, and issued by Russia (USSR) on July 29, 1959 (except as noted), Scott Nos. 2181-86, Zagorski Nos. 2210-15.

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Steamship, Vladivostok-Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka service.


M.S. Feliks Dzerzhinski, Odessa-Latakia service.


M.S. Rossija, Odessa-Batum service, issued on April 10, 1959.


Steamship, Murmansk-Tiksi service.


M.S. Mikhail Kalinin leaving Leningrad, issued on April 10, 1959.


M.S. Baltika, Leningrad-London service.

Ship stamps with pictorial ship cancels:

The SS Rex was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1931. Here is an image of a stamp depicting SS Rex in Matanzas Bay, printed by photogravure (Waterlow & Sons, Ltd.), and issued by Cuba on May 5, 1936, Scott No. 326, plus a photo of the ocean liner at sea, with a flyby by a couple of Boeing Y1B-17s.

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HMS Royalist, designed by Victor Whiteley, printed by photogravure (Harrison & Sons, Ltd.), and issued for use in Gilbert and Ellice Islands on September 1, 1967 as one of a set of three stamps commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Protectorate, Scott No. 132.

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https://goscf.com/t/5719&whichpage=8#171981 ... nethryk posted the reddish coil definitive

Here is the same ship stamp in bluish, which an online catalog that I am not permitted to mention by name identified as the 1972 se-tenant re-issue to mark the then-coming Stockholmia 74 International Stamp Exhibition, FDoI cancelled.

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/s/ ikeyPikey

Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting the Patrol Boat Albatros, P681, and maps of several islands, designed by French artist Serge Markó, engraved by Claude Haley, and issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on July 2, 1984, Scott No. C83.

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Here is an image of a stamp depicting the modern coaster Oiseau des îles II, designed and engraved by Pierre Béquet (1932-2012) after a photo by French-Tahitian photographer Adolphe Sylvain (1920-1991), and issued for use in French Polynesia on August 30, 1966, Scott No. 222.

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