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Showing posts with label *Ships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label *Ships. Show all posts
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Greenland: Qaqortoq - Cruise w/ MS Hamburg from Hamburg via Iceland to Greenland (**1000th Cover**)

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Worldwide Covers Blog 1000 Covers This post marks a historic milestone. It's the 1000th Cover I post...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

USA: Ship Mail from the RV Thomas G. Thompson – University of Washington

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This cover was mailed aboard the RV Thomas G. Thompson, the oceanographic research vessel operated by the University of Washington School of...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

South Africa: German frigate "Baden-Württemberg" (F 222) - Mission: "Indo-Pacific Deployment 2024" (May - December 2024)

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This is another cover of german frigate "Baden-Württemberg" on its 2024 "Indo-Pacific Deployment"-Mission. After I got...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Germany: Kiel Week 2025

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The Kiel Week 2025 took place from June 21 to June 29, 2025, under the shared motto “WIR-Woche” (“WE Week”). The event featured numerous sai...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Germany: Research Vessel "Planet"

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The "Planet" is a state-of-the-art naval research vessel operated by the German Navy and is considered the most modern research sh...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

France: T.A.A.F - Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands - "on board of the R/V Marion Dufresne"

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The French Southern and Antarctic Lands is an overseas territory of France. It consists of: Adélie Land (Terre Adélie), the French claim on ...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Germany: Replenishment Ship "Rhein A 513 "

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The Elbe-class replenishment ships are also known "Tenders" of the German Navy. In German, this type of ship is called Versorgungs...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Greenland: Ilulissat - "on board of the MS Roald Amundsen"

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In late August of this year a friend of mine went on a spectacular trip on the "Hurtigruten" Ship MS Roald Amundsen . The Cruise w...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Japan: German frigate "Baden-Württemberg" (F 222) - Mission: "Indo-Pacific Deployment 2024" (May - December 2024)

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For around six months, from May to December 2024, german frigate "Baden-Württemberg" and replenishment ship "Frankfurt am Mai...
Friday, October 04, 2024

Cyprus: German frigate "Brandenburg" (F 215) - Operation "UNIFIL" (March 24 - July 24)

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Under the command of frigate captain Andreas Scheiba, the crew of the german frigate "Brandenburg" departed from Wilhelmshaven, Ge...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Germany: RV "Elisabeth Mann Borgese"

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The Elisabeth Mann Borgese is a German research vessel named after the renowned marine law expert and environmentalist Elisabeth Mann Borges...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Germany: Brig "Roald Amundsen" Baltic Sea Journey 2024 (May - August 2024)

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Roald Amundsen (often abbreviated 'Roald'; named in honor of Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen), originally named 'Vilm...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Djibouti: German frigate "Hessen" (F 221) - Operation "EUNAVFOR Aspides" (February - April/May 2024)

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In February 2024, the frigate "Hessen" departed from the port of Wilhelmshaven for the Red Sea with about 240 people on board in ...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Cyprus: First foreign Mission of the german frigate "Baden-Württemberg" - "UNIFIL" (October 23 - Janaury 24)

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On Friday, 20 October 2023, the german navy frigate "Baden-Württemberg" left her home port of Wilhelmshaven, Germany with the crew...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Germany: Research Vessel Polarstern on Expedition PS136

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The Polarstern expedition PS136 started on 22 May 2023 in Bremerhaven, Grmany and led to the Fram Strait between Greenland and the Svalbard ...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Germany: 90th Anniversary of the steam Ice-Breaker "Stettin" + Season-ending 2023

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The "Stettin" is a steam icebreaker built by the shipyard "Stettiner Oderwerke" in 1933. The economy of the city of Stet...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Spain: Spanish Antarctic Research Station "Gabriel de Castilla" + BIO Hesperides

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Gabriel de Castilla Base is a Spanish research station located on Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The station was cons...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Germany: “Tag der Bundeswehr - German Military Day" 2023 in Wilhelmshaven

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The "Tag der Bundeswehr" is an anual open-door event at several locationas of the german federal defence. I was able to get some c...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Germany: Research Vessel Polarstern on Expedition PS129

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The expedition PS129 of the German research vessel Polarstern wanted to provide contributions to scientific projects encompassing physical o...
Friday, April 01, 2022

Germany: Research Vessel Polarstern on Expedition PS127

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RV Polarstern departed 5 December 2021 from Bremerhaven, Germany and arrived on 4 January 2022 in Cape Town (South Africa) with a planned po...