Showing posts with label WW1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW1. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 March 2020

United States of America.



San Jacinto : TEXAS : USA.:

  Great card!!   always have had a weakness for naval battleships.. This is a great card showing the USS Texas : A museum ship to be seen and visited in The  Battleground State Park in San Jacinto Texas  (near Houston ).  This majestic old battle wagon is the only remaining battleship to have survived the both World Wars of  WW1 and WW2.. This ship was presented to the people of Texas by The US Navy in 1948. Thank you Arnold for this swap card. love the appropriate stamps too..
Posted  Houston : 16 February : Arrived Sydney :02 Mrach : Traveled 15 days  thanks mate.

Saturday, 8 October 2016

England


Edinburgh : SCOTLAND.

A wonderful reproduction card based on the stamp designed  by Marjorie Saynor and issued by The British Post Office 16th June 1982. The card depicts The Viscount Cunningham and the battleship Warspite .

WARSPITE.: This "Warspite" ( one of seven ships to carry this name in the British Navy ) was A Queen Elisabeth class Battleship Launched in 1913 and served in The First World War and on numerous operations, and  in The Second World War earning the most battle honours of any ship of the Royal Navy.She ran aground on her way to be broken up in 1947 and was scrapped in 1950.
VISCOUNT CUNNINGHAM.:
Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham.1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope. KT, GCB, OM, DSO (and two bars ) Born 7th January 1883 -Died 12th June 1963 ) was a British Admiral of the Second World War and was widely known by his nickname." ABC". He was buried at sea off Portsmouth,
 Posted Edinburgh 23 September : Arrived Sydney 07 October : Traveled 11 days.. Thanks Pat for this fine card..


Sunday, 7 August 2016

Australia



Parramatta.: NEW SOUTH WALES..: AUSTRALIA.:
 HMAS Parramatta.:  was the first ship of the Royal Australian Navy.( D 55 )  A River Class Destroyer . Commisioned in 1910  and was paid off in 1928.  There have been four ships that have carried the name HMAS Parramatta.and the other three being.
HMAS Parramatta : (U 44 ) A Grimbsy Class Sloop Commissioned in 1939 and sunk by German submarine ( U599)  off the coast of Tobruk on 27 November 1941.
HMAS Parramatta. (DE. 46 ) A River Class Destroyer Escort commissioned in 1961 and de-commissioned in 1991.
HMAS Parramatta: (FFH. 154 ) An Anzac Class Frigate  Commissioned in 2003 and on active service as of 2016.

Four ships carrying the name of HMAS Parramatta are entitled to carry four battle honours :
Rabaul 1914 .. Adriatic 1917 - 1918 ,  Libya  1941 , Malaysia 1964 - 1966.
Named after the Parramatta River with such significance to the city of Sydney.




Australia

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