Ships on Stamps

Warship "Hakon" ca.1700
Issued Feb.26th,1951.There is also a 25 Öre value in the same design.

issued Oct.9th,1974; from a set of 2,commemorating the 350th anniv. of the danish postal service;

Issued July 18th,1934. From a set of two stamps in identical design.

Here's one from New Zealand - Xue Long
- One of my favourites
The maxi-card is postmarked on the 29th October 2009 at Lyttelton which is first day. It also bears two special Chinese "Xue Long" rubber stamps or cachets applied on board the vessel itself. (One cachet is on the reverse). This was a limited edition maxi-card and is rarely seen, and with only 1000 stamps available I'm not certain how many postcards were produced/stamped.

Issued 29 October 2009 coinciding with the visit of the vessel to Lyttelton on its way to the Antarctic. "Xue Long" which means Snow Dragon is the largest ship involved in Antarctic work. It provides support to China's three Antarctic stations. It called into Lyttelton for bunkering, picking up research scientists and an extra helicopter. A total of 1,000 regularly gummed 50 cent CAL's were produced with over 70% going overseas immediately.

The vessel is the main Chinese Antarctic support vessel. It is based at Shanghai and provides Icebreaking capabilities to the Chinese when re-supplying their two main Antarctic bases. To see covers from these bases click on either Great Wall Station or Zhong Shan Station. It is currently the biggest vessel regularly engaged in Antarctic work.

www.newzeal.com/theme/Ships/.../xuelong.htm

Jordan

Commemoration of opening the port of Aqaba

1961,Dec 11 - Scott # 383-384

"The Khufu ship is an intact full-size vessel from Ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. The ship now is preserved in the Giza Solar boat museum. The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu (King Cheops), the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Like other buried Ancient Egyptian ships, it was apparently part of the extensive grave goods intended for use in the afterlife, and contained no bodies, unlike northern European ship burials.
The ship was discovered in 1954  – undisturbed since it was sealed into a pit carved out of the Giza bedrock. It was built largely of Lebanon cedar planking in the "shell-first" construction technique, using unpegged tenons of Christ's thorn.Khufu's ship is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved vessels from antiquity.
It measures 43.6 m (143 ft) long and 5.9 m (19.5 ft) wide.It was thus identified as the world's oldest intact ship and has been described as "a masterpiece of woodcraft" that could sail today if put into water, lake and river."

                                                                                   Solar bark of Cheops when discovered
           

Egypt
1974,Mar21 - Solar Bark of Khufu - Scott # Airmail- C164

Russia although a prolific issuer of stamps has always done a fine job with their ships stamps. I enjoy the various icebreakers the most.