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More ship stamps tor Norfolk
Norfolk Island will issue four mo stamps in August featuring shi\ associated with the island’s histor Four stamps featuring ships have c ready been issued (“ PIM”, Feb., 13).
THE new stamps are in denomin tions of sc, 7c, 9c and 10c.
The 5c stamp depicts the slot Norfolk, which was built of Norfo pine in 1798.
Late that year Matthew Flinde and George Bass with a small ere left Sydney in her to discover Ba Strait, Norfolk was the first vessel circumnavigate Tasmania.
The 7c stamp will feature H survey cutter Mermaid. This shi with the brig Brutus, left Sydney May, 1825, with a detachment i soldiers, 57 prisoners and a fe women and children to reopen tl island as a penal settlement after had been closed for 11 years.
The barque Lady Franklin w appear on the 9c stamp.
This vessel carried stores and co victs between Hobart and Norfo during the second settlement.
In 1855 the Lady Franklin ma> her last trip to the island to transpc some 60 prisoners to Hobart.
The Morayshire, which is shov on the 10c stamp, was chartered 1 Governor Denison to carry the whe Pitcairn population, numbering 19 to Norfolk in 1856.