Tristan da Cunha 2013 The Tristan Volcanic Eruption (IV). Ships
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 9th December 2013
- four values and a miniature sheet
- Designed by: Andrew Robinson, from archive photographs. Designs incorporate plan view of the Tristan volcano
- Printed by: BDT International Security Printing, Dublin, Ireland
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format: format height 29mm x width 42½mm. Miniature sheet format height 64mm x width 84mm
- Perforations: 14 x 14
The Tristan Volcanic Eruption, part four. Ships of the Volcano Period
Sheet stamps:
25p ~ HMS Puma, carried resettlement survey expedition, Sept-Oct 1962
35p ~ HMS Jaguar, made two visits to the evacuated island 1961 & 1962 to assess conditions
95p ~ MV Tristania, fishing vessel which carried out the original evacuation from Tristan to Nightingale Island
£1.10 ~ HMMV Stirling Castle, carried islanders to Cape Town (October 1961) and then onward to England
Miniature sheet £2 ~MV Bornholm: brought second party islanders back to Tristan
Miniature sheet border depicts SAS Transvaal (South African Navy), conveyed Royal Society expedition to island before resettlement, and cover with PAQUEBOAT datestamp 7.II.62 inscribed ‘no stamps available’
