SHIPS ON POSTAGE STAMPS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10628, 3 December 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

SHIPS ON POSTAGE STAMPS.

The si 1 ill postage stamps are numerous and have performed yeoman ser- - vice. Among the most notable or stamp pictures •of modern _ vessels arc those'on the Buffalo Exposition stamps' of America, the one cent, showing a fast-going vessel .on the great lakes and the ten cent, showing «'• lirave ocean traveller. An early local stamp of the "United States shows < J^ ,e l er little' side-wheel 1 steamer that would be a curiosity nowadays. Ameiican ship stamps include the veiy interesting Columbian series with the pictures oi Columbus' vessels. There aie almost innumerable stamps of other Western Hemiphere countries which portray the fleet and individual vessels ol Cohiml bus. In the stamp picture gallery there is probably every tvpe of boat that was ever invented \>xcept the submarine and 'No'a'liV Ark;:«eithei- of which seems to have appeared up to this time. In the class of smaller vessels there are .1 ow--boats and-boats that are propelled b,\ 'poles, the latter tvpe being shown oa j a stamp of .the Congo Free State, as a companion piece to the hack-wheeler. ;i The ' vessels of Fulton and. of_ Hudson, 'axe pictured on stamps ot the issue got out by the United States when the.-"Hudson-Fulton celebration was held. On. the'same stamp, it will .be recalled, there was-shown an. Indian .canoe. All these types have an interest 111 connecr tion -with the return to America, of the multitude of tourists-who have been enjoying the summer abroad. Ihcy show - in; remarkable contrast, the pro- , -gress - that has- been made by men_m navigating the sens. in. annihilating dis-, ; -tance and accomplishing comfort afloat. I"t is an impressive fact that the paths that -are unw followed by .the gigantic, and magnificently appointed ships, of the present aire were opened -by the; ; crude" vessel of our forefathers and .that; the safe passage of the: oceans now.was not guaranteed to the sturdy souls who - went down to the sea.in sliips years ago.