Ship Stamps

Coloboque - Nice stamps! Suggestion: If you would set the size of your stamp images to no more than 800 x 600 pixels each, I believe it would really help out those collectors who use dial-up service to access the forum.

- nethryk

MS Gripsholm was an ocean liner built in 1925 by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England for the Swedish American Line for use in transatlantic crossings from Gothenburg to New York City. From 1927 onwards she was also used as a cruise ship. From 1942 to 1946, the USA chartered Gripsholm as an exchange and repatriation ship under the auspices of the International Red Cross, with a Swedish captain and crew. Here is an image of a definitive stamp depicting MS Gripsholm, designed by Swedish graphic artist Olle Hjortzberg (1872-1959), engraved by Sven Ewert, and issued by Sweden on February 20, 1936, Scott No. 261, Facit No. 256.

- nethryk

Liberia :
The "Alligator" first settlers' ship

Is that a heron nesting in the date palm
or just a bent frond.

The only stamp I can afford for my album.

nethryk,

I've got about a dozen postcards and covers sent by one of the Gripsholm's passengers during its cruise from New York to Rio in 1937 -- thanks for pointing out that the ship was the subject of a stamp. Here is how she looked in the water.



And here are a few more ship stamps -- United States 1989.

A couple of Greek ships. I guess they know their port from starboard too.






The second one even has flags on it!

Trawler (surrounded by sea gulls, naturally), designed by French artist Georges Gimel (1898-1962), engraved by Jules Piel, printed by typography, and issued for use in Saint Pierre and Miquelon on December 5, 1932, Scott No. 139, SG No. 172.

- nethryk

Here is an image of an engraved stamp depicting an aircraft carrier, issued by Brazil on March 7, 1958 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Admiral Tamandaré (1807-1897), whose dedication and heroism made him the patron of the Brazilian Navy, Scott No. 1857, SG No. 970.

- nethryk

Some American ships in situ

A couple more.
First steamship to cross the Atlantic



And a couple of ship laiden treasures from this years secret santa (sssssssssh)

Testing Tinypic - hope all can see

Thanks BSW, great cover. I think the few of us who were blocked can see your great stamp scans now.

Team New Zealand - Americas Cup Victory 1995 stamp 45c. (They put the same stamp on 3 different cards). Here's one

This is a Cinderella boat stamp.

The writer of the card is the designer of the stamp - Ralph Dyer.

He writes ........."the above seal is the design I made for that event (4th ASDA National Postage Stamp Show - Nov 1952......."

The ship depicted on the seal is SS United States - a luxury passenger liner built in 1952 for the United States Lines designed to capture the trans-Atlantic speed record.

Built at a cost of $78 million, the ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States, the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, and retains in her retirement the Blue Riband given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed.

Her construction partially subsidized by the United States government, the ship was designed to allow conversion to a troop carrier should the need have arisen. The United States operated uninterrupted in transatlantic passenger service until 1969; since 1996 she has been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.