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Royal Mail launches fleet of stamps featuring famous seafaring vessels to celebrate [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| September 19, 2019
| Andrew Levy
Posted on 09/19/2019 7:27:49 AM PDT by C19fan
For centuries the Royal Navy defended Britain from invasion and turned this island nation into a global superpower.
Now the Senior Service’s role in our history is being celebrated by the Royal Mail – even if the navy and our place in the world are rather less grand than they used to be.
A set of eight stamps, covering 500 years, will commemorate some the navy’s key ships, starting with Henry VIII’s Mary Rose of 1511, and concluding with the giant aircraft carrier, the Queen Elizabeth.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: navy; stamps
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posted on
09/19/2019 7:27:50 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
They included the Beagle. Nice!
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posted on
09/19/2019 7:30:08 AM PDT
by
null and void
(<---powered by warm sunshine and gentle breezes and unicorn farts, don't forget the unicorn farts!)
To: null and void
What, no Yellow Submarine?
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posted on
09/19/2019 7:44:40 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: null and void
It has been a long time since I added any stamps to my collection, but this set looks like a winner.
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posted on
09/19/2019 7:46:34 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
09/19/2019 7:46:53 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: C19fan
An uninspiring set of choices, the same ships that have been on the list for years, excepting QEII. No 74 gun ship of the line and no frigate. I would add HMS Bellona 74 and HMS Boreas 28.
To: C19fan
Very ironic choice of words. The once mighty British navy once ruled the seas.
Today, they still talk about sea power, but it is only just talk. The only ships they launch today are on stamps!
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posted on
09/19/2019 7:57:24 AM PDT
by
OldCorps
To: null and void
I see the denomination is Pounds, not Euros! What about the first two? This side of the pond would say “first” but I presume that is Pounds Sterling.
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posted on
09/19/2019 7:59:41 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
To: NonValueAdded
Beats me. We went base-ten metric a loooonnngg time ago (in New World terms!)...
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posted on
09/19/2019 8:05:12 AM PDT
by
null and void
(<---powered by warm sunshine and gentle breezes and unicorn farts, don't forget the unicorn farts!)
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
09/19/2019 8:32:38 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
To: null and void
When did the term “HMS” come into use?
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posted on
09/19/2019 8:35:41 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: centurion316
An uninspiring set of choices, the same ships that have been on the list for years, excepting QEII. No 74 gun ship of the line and no frigate. I would add HMS Bellona 74 and HMS Boreas 28.Indeed! I might have suggested HMT Juniper, lost in action June 8, 1940, while attacking (without assistance) the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Admiral Hipper, and four German destroyers...
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posted on
09/19/2019 8:43:33 AM PDT
by
Who is John Galt?
("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
To: null and void
Should be "base-ten metric money"...
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posted on
09/19/2019 8:52:37 AM PDT
by
null and void
(<---powered by warm sunshine and gentle breezes and unicorn farts, don't forget the unicorn farts!)
To: null and void
No Admiral Nelson’s HMS Victory?
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posted on
09/19/2019 9:00:36 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
To: Alas Babylon!
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posted on
09/19/2019 9:08:00 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
To: Sans-Culotte
Thanks!
The date threw me off.
Was she really 40 years old when she fought at Trafalgar?
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posted on
09/19/2019 10:07:08 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
To: Don Corleone
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posted on
09/19/2019 12:08:45 PM PDT
by
Cecily
To: C19fan
In the History of the Royal Navy there were so many ships that valiantly serve the King or Queen. The Brits could have issued 100s of stamps recognizing the service of the ships of the Royal Navy.
To: Cecily
How about HMS Campbeltown from the raid at St. Nazaire?
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posted on
09/19/2019 5:45:54 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: null and void
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posted on
09/19/2019 5:47:39 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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