Hello, Stamps celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Thailand-Portugal Diplomatic Relations Commemorative Stamps Issue Date : 2011-07-20 James
Another Thai mini-sheet 2004-09-01 [150,000 print run] and 2005-04-21 [25,000 print run] for the World Stamp Expo [sheet overprinted] Regards, James
Those old schooners, if that's the right phrase, are pretty awesome. Probably not very enjoyable if you're prone to getting sea sick though.
Hello Gunny, Strictly speaking Schooners were 2 or 3 masted ships with all the lower sails rigged fore and aft. Sometimes square rig topsails were added for extra speed. The ships depicted here are Barques with 3 or more masts all square rigged except the mizzen mast (rearmost mast) which was fore and aft rigged. Fore and aft rigging allowed the ships to sail much closer to the wind at the expence of speed. Modern yachts use fore and aft sails for manoverability and run up spinakers for additional downwind speed. Regards, James
Hello all, another set of sailing ships from the Isle of Man. Issued 1988-05-11 The first stamp depicts the EUTERPE now the oldest iron hulled sailing ship still in use. Launched on Saturday 14th November 1863. She now sails under the name Star of India located at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. See the last stamp in the set. Regards, James.
Hello, another Barque rigged ship the "Endeavour". A refitted collier (coal ship). In August 1768 Captain James Cook and a crew of 100 Sailed via Tierra del Fuego to the South seas to observe the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti and to secretly search for a southern continent (terra australis incognita). He circumnavigated and mapped the islands of New Zealand and the Eastern coast of "New Holland" Australia. He returned to England in July 1771 via Batavia (Java) and Cape Town. Regards, James.
