Royal Mail Special Stamps, Merchant Navy Issue.

[riskygizmo]

The Royal Mail are issuing a special run of stamps honouring the British Merchant Navy. Due for release next month, they are asking for stories from seafarers and their families with the best being shared at the official launch on the Cutty Sark.

http://www.royalmailgroup.com/calling-veterans-and-descendants-merchant-navy-crew

[Michael Gallagher]

And a Cunard ship takes pride of place in the issue.

[Twynkle]

The Royal Mail are issuing a special run of stamps honouring the British Merchant Navy. Due for release next month, they are asking for stories from seafarers and their families with the best being shared at the official launch on the Cutty Sark.

http://www.royalmailgroup.com/calling-veterans-and-descendants-merchant-navy-crew

Thank Goodness - and about time too!
Thanks to you too RiskyG, for posting.

So - hopefully there will be lots of stories - so many in fact that, as soon as possible, the Merchant Navy may be given a truly appropriate, lasting and unique award in recognition of their service to the UK of GB and NI.
Wondering now what will happen to the seafarers' Stories... all those  and their families who work(ed) on every type of ship including ships STUFT as well as IceBreakers, Oil Rigs (are the latter classed as ships, btw?) etc, because proper recognition is long overdue, isn't it?
On reading the Royal Mail link - is it appropriate to single out any one of 'a number of the great Merchant Navy vessels'?

[cunardqueen]

  And a Cunard ship takes pride of place in the issue. 

Its not surely our ship... They already did a stamp with that other monstrosity 

[Michael Gallagher]

They are not proper Queen approved stamps CunardQueen. HM The Queen has approved this one - like she did the QM2 (and Mauretania and Queen Mary) one in 2003.

[Twynkle]

Just found this -it's all about ships on stamps, with interesting history to go with them.
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6064

[Rob Lightbody]

Just found this -it's all about ships on stamps, with interesting history to go with them.
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6064

There's an ENTIRE FORUM about Ship Stamps!!!???  And I thought we were niche!!

[Twynkle]

The Event on Cutty Sark happens next Wednesday - 18th September, 9.30am - 10.30 am.
Lasting just one hour - it is the Public Relations launch  of the special series of Stamps commemorating the Merchant Navy, and attended by descendants of ancestors who worked in the Merchant Navy.
One of the set of stamps shows RMS Queen Elizabeth, it was painted approximately 3 years ago by Robert Lloyd.