Lets see stamps with modern era Naval Ships

Molokai,I do not know,what you are refering to.
Far from having any deep knowledge,I just had a look at the
listing of the german battleships.
The last one,put into service in World War I,was the Hindenburg in 1917.
All later built or projected ships were never completed.
In September (!) 1918,the emperor signed an order to build a very big
battleship of 48.000 tons.The project was named L 20 e.But it did not
even see the end of the pojecting,bevor the war ended (very unexpected) in November.
After the war the german fleet was put into internment in Scapa Flow,
Orkneys.
When it became clear that Germany would have to sign the Versailles
Peace Treaty,what ordered the hand-over of all ships to the enemies,
the commanding officer ordered and performed on June 21st,1919 the sinking of the fleet.
When you google "Scapa Flow",you may find the (very long) listing
of the sinked ships.The "Friederich der Große" was one of them.

 

As far as I know the Tirpitz and the Bismarck were excellent ships.
But lacking the necessary air-defence,they were not of much use.
The US Iowa-class and the japanese Yamato-class were rather similar.

 

Großlinienschiff (battleship) "Prinzregent Luitpold",sistership of
the earliar shown "Friederich der Große" was put into service in 1912.
Albin Köbis was the other sailor,who received the death-penalty for the
1917 mutiny.
The "Princeregent Luitpold" and all other four battleships of the
"Kaiserclass" were amongst those ships,what were sinked at the
Orkneys by their crews in 1919,to avoid a handover to the enemies.

 

Cruiser of the "Seydlitz-Class".
Top-value of the set,issued Sept.5th,1967.

 

The Armored Cruiser "Aurora",built in 1901,played a legendary part in the
October-Revolution of 1917,when it gave the signal to the storm on the
Winter-Palais in St.Petersburg.
Today it is a museum-ship,laying in St.Petersburg.
issued Sept.20th,1977; (from a set of 2)

 

"Brotherhood in Arms",issued Sept.11th,1984; from a set of 3;

 

Armed Forces,from a set of 4 (printed in strips),issued Aug.23rd,1988.

 

issued July 18th,1996

 

British light cruzier HMS Mauritius,issued May 8th,1995.
(from a set of 3)

 

Hi Werner, I find it such a coincidence that your stamp of the SMS Emden from Tristan da Cunha is the same ship as shown in my post, when the Australian ship HMAS Sydney fired on the Emden, and beached it... I wonder why the TdaC islands put it on their stamp?

 

Hallo Betty,
I was a little bit confused by your mentioning of Tristan da Cunha.
The stamps in question are from the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
I guess the reason for this issue of the BIOT,is the harbouring of the
Emden at Diego Garcia in 1914,the british base,what is still today reason
for the existence of the colony B.I.O.T.The Emden met a friendly welcome there,although Britain was at war with Germany already for more than
one and a half months.But the news of the war had not reached yet
Diego Garcia !

 

Issued Jan.1st,1979.

 

Issued May 3rd,1990. (from a set of 5)