Ship Stamps

Argentina
Maritime Transport
September 24, 2005
0.25 + 0.25 ARS: Merchant vessel Rio de la Plata
0.50 + 0.50 ARS: Motor vessel Libertad
0.50 + 0.50 ARS: Tanker Campo Duran
0.75 + 0.75 ARS: Container ship Isla Soledad

Great Britain
Historical Ships
January 15, 1969
SS Great Britain (1845 - 1886)
RMS Mauretania (1906 - 1934)

Great Britain
Ocean Liners
April 13, 2004
The stamp set features RMS Queen Mary 2 (2004), SS Canberra (1961), RMS Queen Mary (1936), RMS Mauretania (1907), SS City Of New York (1888), PS Great Western (1838).

Slovenia
Slovenian Ships
May 26, 2017
Cargo ship MARIBOR
May 25, 2018
Cargo ship LJUBLJANA

Republic of China (Taiwan)
30th Navigation Day
July 11, 1984
The stamp set depicts a container ship and an oil tanker.

New Zealand
Great Voyages of New Zealand
September 5, 2012
70c: Aramoana (Picton to Wellington ferry)
$1.90: Earnslaw (steamer on Lake Wakapitu)

Slovakia
Ships
December 30, 1994
The stamp set depicts Freighter EMS and Freighter Ryn.

Slovenia
Slovenian Ships
May 31, 2019
Cargo ship PORTOROZ

On November 1, 1970 Singapore issued a set of 3 "Shipping" stamps to highlight the importance of this industry to the island nation's economy. The artwork is drawn in high contrast, graphic fashion. Stanley Gibbons lists the stamps as #s 143-5.

The 15c stamp depicts the freighter Neptune Aquamarine. The ship spotting.com website lists the build year as "1969", and the status as "dead".

On December 17, 1972, Singapore issued another set of 3 "Shipping" stamps (SG #s 185-7), and also a souvenir sheet (SG # MS 188) containing the 3 values. The 15c stamp depicts "Neptune Ruby", Singapore's first domestically built container ship.

From the straits times website, " Built by Jurong Shipyard, Neptune Ruby was the first ocean-going vessel built by Singapore. Prior to that, Singapore had only constructed small coastal and patrol vessels."

Here is Thailand's November 6, 1996 stamp issued in honor of King Rama IX's 50th Anniversary of Accession to the the Throne, or Golden Jubilee. Stamp is Scott #1692. This is a large stamp, measuring 11.9 cm x 3.4 cm perf. tip to perf. tip.

Stamp shows the Royal Barge as constructed by the Thai Royal Navy. It is the first Royal Barge to be built during the contemporary reign.

Here are images of two stamps depicting French Navy warships, designed and engraved by French artist Jean Delpech (1916-1985), and issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on January 1, 1979 to commemorate visits by these vessels to the Kerguelen Islands in 1977, Scott Nos. 77 & 78. Bonuses: Birds (penguins), aircraft (helicopters).

- nethryk

Destroyer Forbin (D635).


Helicopter cruiser Jeanne D'Arc (R97)

Bulgaria
Old Sailing Ships
October 17, 2019
Two minisheets
(Designer: Nenko Atanasov)

This 1.35 GBP British stamp of 2019 is a painting depicting the battleship HMS Dreadnought. Also shown is an earlier British stamp showing Admiral Fisher and HMS Dreadnought.

From Wikipedia, "HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship that revolutionized naval power. Dreadnought's name and the class of battleships named after her, means 'a fearless person.' Dreadnought's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with a whole generation of battleships, the 'dreadnoughts', as well as the class of ships named after her...Admiral Sir John 'Jacky' Fisher, First Sea Lord of the Board of Admiralty, is credited as the father of the Dreadnought...She was the first capital ship to be powered by steam turbine, making her the fastest battleship in the world at the time of her completion."

On July 17, 2013 Ireland issued set of three stamps (two 60c and one 90c) to publicize the port of Cork. One of the 60c stamps (Sc. #2001) shows a container ship and tugboat, while the 90c stamp (Sc. #2003) depicts a cruise liner.