THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. *

Nautical stamps from Britain

In view of the sea-girt
nature of the United
Kingdom it would he
surprising if many
stamps did not have a
nautical flavor. Although
pictorial stamps are
comparatively recent,
the nautical element in
British stamps goes back
quite a long time and a
large collection can be
assembled on this theme.

The high value stamps
of the late Victorian and
Edwardian series, from
1882 to 1913, had an
anchor as. the
watermark, while the ‘ed
andi d stamps of the
reign of George V had a
pair of dolphins flanking
the king’s portrait,
alluding to Britain’s
Maritime interests. The
high value stamps of that
reign featured Britannia
in a naval chariot drawn
by three seahorses.

Heraldry of this sort
gave way to more
functional symbolism in
the 242d stamp of 194%
celebrating the return to
peace after the Second
World War. A _ three-
funnelled liner was
outlined in the lower right
hand corner of the
design, along with
outlines of a tractor,
house and factory to

symbolise commerce,
agriculture,
reconstruction and
industry respectively.
The high value
definitive stamps of 1951,
however, provided the
first example of an actual
ship. HMS Victory,
Nelson’s flagship at the
Battle of Trafalgar, was
featured on the 2s éd
stamp. The 5s stamp of
the same series depicted
the White Cliffs of Dover,
with a sailing dinghy and
a fishing smack in the
foreground. A beached
fishing vessel was also
shown on the 2s 6d stamp
of 1955 featuring
Carrickfergus Castle in
Northern Ireland.
Shipyards in Belfast
were the subject of the 4d
stamp in a series of 1964
marking the | 20th
International
Geographical Congress
in London. An oil tanker
on its way upstream to
the refineries at
Grangemouth was shown
on the 3d stamp of
September 1964
celebrating the opening
of the Forth Road Bridge,
while a modern sea
freighter was featured on
the 9d stamp of 1967
honoring the European
Free Trade Area, For

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the 2s 6d stamp marking
the 700th anniversary of
Simon de Montfort’s
Parliament, Wenceslas
Hollar’s panoramic view
of the Houses of
Parliament at
Westminster was chosen
in 1965. In_ the
foreground can be seen
some of the barges which
constituted much of the
river traffic, then as now.

In 1966 stamps spanned
almost a thousand years
of maritime technology.
The 6d stamp in the
Battle of Hastings series
depicted a section of the
Bayeux Tapestry
showing typical Norman
galleys of that period.
The single large sail and
the high carved prow
were distinctive features
of the ships which the
Normans inherited from
their Viking ancestors.
At the other extreme,
chronologically, was the
1s 3d stamp in the set
paying tribute to British
technology. This
featured the Saunders-
Roe SRN-6 hovercraft,
the latest ina line which
began with the SRN-1, the
first to cross the English
Channel in 1959.

Sir Francis
Chichester’s yacht Gipsy
Moth IV appeared ona Is
9d stamp released in 1967
in honor of the single-
handed world voyage.
Captain James Cook’s
converted Whitby collier,

HM Brig Endeavour, was:
‘ featured

with his
signature, on one of the
Anniversaries stamps of
1968 to mark the
bicentenary of his first
epic voyage to the
Pacific.

Then, in January 1969,
six stamps were issued
with the theme of British
shipping through the
ages. Three 9d stamps,
printed se-tenant,
- featured an Elizabethan
‘ galleon, a 17th century

East Indiaman and the -

famous clipper ship Cutty
Sark, now. preserved at
Greenwich. Two jumbo-

a sized 1s stamps featured

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the SS, Great Britain, the
greatest feat of marine
engineering in the 19th
century, and the RMS
Mauretania, one of the
great ocean liners of pre-
war days. The 5d stamp
of the series depicted the
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2,
the new Cunard liner
built on Clydebank,. The
diminutive Mayflower,
which took the Pilgrims
to America in 1620 was
shown on the 1s 6d
Anniversaries stamp of
1970.

The latest stamp with a
nautical theme is the 7/2p
in the Anniversaries
series issued on April 26.

The stamp, designed by

wegner, shows a coast-
guard in early 19th
century uniform against
the background of a
stormy sea and a ship in
distress. The Coastguard
service, founded in 1822
as an anti-smuggling
force, was placed under
Admiralty control in 1856
to make better provision
for coastal defence, In
1923 it was transferred to
the Board of Trade (?now
the Department of Trade
and Industry) and is now
administered primarily
as
a life-saving agency. Its
lookout posts and
coastguard stations
maintain a constant
v ther watch and act in
junction with the
Royal National Lifeboat
Institution, the Royal
Navy and the RAF in co-
ordinating rescure
services. An all too
important part of the
Coastguard duties
nowadays is the check on
cif pollution round the
coasts.

This stmp
complements the set of
three issued in 1963 in
honour of the Ninth
International Lifeboat
Conference in Edinburgh
and featuring air-sea
rescue (2%4d), the
Aldeburgh — clinker-built
lifeboat of 1900 (4d) anda
group of. lifeboatmen in

oilskins and life-jackets

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