lions and fish

 My apologies ... 

I should have written 'commemorating' or 'celebrating' historical events

river cruise

 

Most of the major European River Cruises dock at this Austrian village, although this is one of the regional day trip cruises.  Due to the now low water levels of the Danube, cruises will likely be limited.

english riviera

 two different views of Brixham Harbour in Devon

Unfortunately, the artist of the first one isn't credited, but E (Edmund) Nagele is credited for the chrome postcard. Brixham is the busiest fishing port in England.  I found a travel blog posted in August which listed so many places to visit, walk, and eat, but strangely did not once mention the replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship, the Golden Hind, which you can see in the inner harbour.  Personally, that would be my first reason to visit, with the views and food a welcome bonus.

at sea

Barbuda is the smaller of the twin islands of Antigua and Barbuda

Battle of the Saintes (France and Britain),  1782 

 the British won

considered the greatest naval battle ever fought in the Caribbean.  the colour of the sky may in part be due to cannon and musket fire? 

 

although it has nothing to do with the sky, if interested, this is an account of the day

caribbean

Bahamas has only competed in the summer games - this will be their 18th.  All their medals have been in sailing or athletics.  

Jamaica, on the other hand, has competed in both the summer and winter games, with an unlikely, but infamous, bobsleigh team.  All their 88 medals, save one for cycling, were for athletics.  They are killer runners.

Another team that sent athletes to compete with Jamaica in bobsleigh was Trinidad and Tobago.  They are also good runners, having won most of their summer medals in athletics.  Vervine is also known as Verbena in NA and the UK

some of the smaller countries in the western hemisphere

sailing

 

there are those who sail and those who intend to do so, one day, maybe, if ...

sails

sailing ships from Ukraine

and, something unusual from Bermuda - green sails!

sails for Sunday Stamps

modes of transport

I have been watching the latest 'Around the World in Eighty Days'

and the balloon trip is the most iconic of the modes of transportation that Phileas Fogg and company took even though it only happened in the movies

Also not actually taken was the Flying Scotsman, though they did travel by train a few times.

 

 

 

 

 

They also travel by sailing ship, and steamers

1999
1976

and, of course, elephant

for Sunday Stamps - transportation

most modern

All steel, Diesel electric ferry

"WESTSIDE"

Largest, most modern passenger and automobile ferry on the Mississippi River or its tributaries operating from New Orleans to Algiers, Louisiana by the Algiers Public Service Company, Incorporated

relics

This stamp predates the find recently of personal items from the doomed Arctic Franklin Expedition. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were mysteriously lost at sea 175 years ago and it wasn't until 2014 that the Erebus was found and deep sea archaeologists were able to begin their search of the ship on the sea floor.

for Sunday Stamps - under the sea

old town

The Old Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia is an Unesco World Heritage Site

The Lunenburg Academy was built in 1895 and still used as a school until 2012.
It is also a National Historic Site.

Although tourism is now the main business in Lunenburg, it used to be shipbuilding, with its most famous, the Bluenose, having been built here in 1921 and the Bluenose II in 1963 and the Bounty, a reconstruction of HMS Bounty in 1961.



this 1982 stamp of the 1929 Bluenose stamp shows mostly the sails, but there is lots of wood underneath.



for Sunday Stamps - things made of wood

steamers

cottage country where once thousands streamed is asking people to please stay home during this pandemic.

sails

Here they come. The ships to "discover" the islands of the Caribbean

Christopher Columbus may have sailed past St Lucia but he didn't even deign to mention it in his travel logs

although Juan de la Cosa did include it on his 'world map' - the first to include the Americas

It is only 617 square miles and is the most mountainous of the Caribbean Islands with The Pitons (798 and 743 metres high) being its most famous landmark

Wouldn't we all like to be here now?

for Sunday Stamps - watercraft

harbour

Hong Kong Harbour
by artist Shen Ping

paddling

I have always lived near water, but am rarely actually on the water. For me, it is something to look at. There was a time when we would be at a cottage, or camping and boats and canoes would be enjoyed for something to do for an hour or so. But I couldn't tell you the last time I was in one.

In Bangladesh, lying as it does in the Ganges-Brahmaputra river delta with 8,000 kms of navigable waterways that cover about 50% of the country, boats are a way of life. These stamps from 2013 show some traditional boats — a dingi (from which we get our word 'dinghy'); a ghasi; and a kunda which is made from a palm trunk.  All of these are specially designed flat bottom 'Bengal boats' for shallow waters.

some oars/paddles and boats on the water for Sepia Saturday

stormy sea

Sea rescue vessel
Bengstkar Lighthouse
stamp design: Asser Jaaro

Sunday Stamps - 'K'

2002, Greenland
engraver - Martin Morck

The Hvidbjornen was crushed by an iceberg after being trapped in some cliffs near Nunarsuit, an island in Greenland, in 1895. Greenland is the world's largest island (that is not a continent) and has only around 57,000 inhabitants. Denmark has sovereignty over the country and Greenlandic and Danish are its official languages. Kalaallit is Greenlandic for the name of the native Inuit people.

for the letter K - Kalaallit Nunaat, krone

4 krone would be 0.84 CAD, or 0.47 GBP, or 0.54 euros today

R.M.S.P.

The Araguaya was built in 1906, the second of the modernized fleet for travel to South America. Each of these ships were named with the letter A, with Araguaya being a river in Brazil. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was started in 1839 and by 1840 had an agreement to carry all of Queen Victoria's mail to the West Indies. There were fourteen ships - all named for rivers - sailing twice a month to Barbados. Nearly every 20 years a new Royal Charter was granted to extend the destinations. The Araguaya's maiden voyage was Southampton to Brazil then on to Montevideo and Buenos Aires. With the advent of WWI she was requisitioned and adapted as a military hospital ship to serve with Canadian forces. After 1920 there was a refit and she again was destined from Southampton to South America as well as occasionally on a Hamburg - New York route. Later, in 1926, another refit as a cruise liner and she was on her way to the Norwegian fjords. By 1930 she was sold and renamed Kraljica Marija and sailing under a Yugoslavian flag.

for Postcards for the Weekend - mail related

Sunday Stamps II - 133

1976, Bermuda

The Tall Ships Race that took place in 1976 during the American Bicentennial was from Bermuda to Rhode Island. The EAGLE was the only US ship in Class A. Originally named Horst Wessel, this 1936 built barque was renamed the Eagle when it was transferred from Germany to the US in 1945. It is currently used as a training vessel for the US Coast Guard.

for Tall Ships

Starting in August, we will have an alphabet theme for each week. You are invited to share any stamps from a country beginning with each week's designated letter, or showing something beginning with that letter. Any language may be used. So, 'N' may feature 'Netherlands', something orange ('naranja'), 'nautical',  an 'N tariff' on a stamp from Belarus, or even 'new' - as in a new issue, or simply new to your collection.

Sunday Stamps II - 45

Canada, issued August 2015
Souvenir Sheet of International stamp

The HMS Erebus, built in 1826 was abandonned in the ice of the Arctic in 1848 during the Franklin Expedition. After years of searching, it was found in 2014. The stamp shows a diagram of the upper deck on the right and a sonar image of the submerged ship on the left.  We know that none of the men on board survived, but what happened to them is still a mystery.  The Erebus, along with HMS Terror, were on a search for the Northwest Passage when they disappeared. 

for stamps commemorating battles or disasters
(and, yes, I now realize that this is more a stamp commemorating the finding of the ship than the disaster of losing it)