M/S BLIKUR |
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Paquebot(?) ALBORG dated 8 MAJ 1978 M/S BLIKUR cachet (in black) |
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1988 cover datestamped TÓRSHAVN M/S BLIKUR cachet (in black) |
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M.S. ENGLAND |
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Postcard datestamed ESBJERG dated 10.7.75 M.S. ENGLAND ESBJERG-THORSHAVN chacet (black) dated -9 JUL 1975 applied on-board |
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FRA FÆRØERNE Ship Mail cover datestamped ESBJERG dated -6.7.78 M.S. ENGLAND ESBJERG-THORSHAVN chacet (blue) dated 1 JUL 1978 applied on-board |
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M.S. WINSTON CHURCHILL |
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Postcard datestamed TÓRSHAVN dated 01.08.1985 M.S. WINSTON CHURCHILL ESBJERG-THORSHAVN chacet (black) dated JUL 1985 applied on-board |
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N/M FUNCHAL |
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PAQUEBOT TÓRSHAVN dated 10.7.79 N/M FUNCHAL cachet (in black) |
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KARMSUND |
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Photograph of the NORLINES
cargo ship KARMSUND |
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M/S LÓMUR |
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Photograph of M/S LÓMUR |
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Paquebot STAVANGAR dated 25.05.81 M/S LOMUR cachet (purple) |
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Paquebot KØBENHAVN dated 18 MAJ 1979 M/S LOMUR cachet (purple) |
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Postcard (Poulsen): Merkið Harbour view from Tórshavn. M/S LOMUR is moored in the background (left) and also possibly M/S NESTINDUR (background right) |
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M/S ÓLAVUR |
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Faroe Islands Study Circle Postcard No. 22 MS ÓLAVUR AT VESTMANNA, FAROE ISLANDS The restored former mailboat carried the mail, freight and passengers to the villages on Vestmannasund and to Tórshavn between 1931 and 1965. Photographed in July 2005 |
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m/s DRONNING ALEXANDRINE |
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Postcard: m/s DRONNING ALEXANDRINE TÓRSHAVN machine cancel (01.Ems.01) dated 08.06.1959. Posted to Højslev, Denmark. |
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M/V DÚGVAN |
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Faroe Islands Study Circle Postcard No. 15 MV DÚGVAN AT KLAKSVÍK, FAROE ISLANDS The Leirvik-Klaksvík ferry sailed for the last time on 29 April 2006 following the opening of the under+sea road tunnel between the two towns. Photographed in June 2005. |
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M/S ISTRA |
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Postcard (Drewsen - Unused): M/S ISTRA at Tórshavn |
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MAKEEVKA |
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Faroe Islands Study Circle Postcard No. 17 VÁGUR POST OFFICE, FAROE ISLANDS The office is dwarfed by the MAKEEVKA, a timber-carrier owned by the Azov Shipping Company, Ukraine. Photographed in June 1988. |
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M/S RITAN |
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Postcard (Hansen 143 901 052 -
Unused): TÓRSHAVN View of the harbour showing M/S RITAN |
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Postcard (Unused and
unlabelled): M/S RITAN |
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Sloop WESTWARD HO |
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Postcard (K12 FØROYAMYNDIR +
Unused): SLUPPIN WESTWARD HO TN54 (built 1884) - one of the old smacks that the Faroese have preserved for the future. |
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M/S TRÓNDUR |
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Faroe Islands Study Circle Postcard No. 20 KALDBAK, STREYMOY, FAROE ISLANDS Kaldbak's traditional turf-roofed church was built in 1835. MS Tróndur was the last of the traditional "milkboats" that served the Faroese villages before the islands' road network was greatly improved. Photographed in June 1968. |
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MS Third’s homecoming from Greenland, 1934 Fishing smack THURID (TN321) and the schooner Haabet (TN199) in Tórshavn’s West Harbour, 1934. The photograph provides an illustration of the increasing importance of the Greenland fisheries to the Faroese during the 1930s. |
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m/s ROKUR |
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TÓRSHAVN PAQUEBOT cover dated 17.6.77 m/s ROKUR cachet (purple) |
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Cover TÓRSHAVN dated 3.2.78 M/B SJÓFARIÐ cachet on reverse (purple). |
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THORSHAVN Paquebot cover dated 22.8.60 Norwegian franking, sender is from Valby, Copenhagen, Denmark) SKIPAÚTGERÐ RÍKISINS (Islandic State Vessel) cachet (black) |
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S.S. UGANDA |
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Postcard (Dixon - unused): S.S. Uganda 17,000 Tons |
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Cover with s.s. Uganda cachet (black). Cover is dated by the Tórshavn datestamp dated 3.7.78 which ties in with the newspaper shipping notes below the cover |
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Air Mail stationery posted on
board s.s. Uganda and delivered as Paquebot mail on
arrival at Tórshavn on 17.8.73 for onward delivery. |
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M/S LEV TOLSTOIJ |
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Cover
datestamped TÓRSHAVN -8.-7.1994 MS "LEV TOLSTOIJ" cachet (black) and TÓRSHAVN FØROYAR cachet (blue) |
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MV Athena |
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TORSHAVN 26-05-2010 Datestamp 01.Ems.13 Machine Cancel Franked with 1000 øre stamp (Nólsoy) from the 2000 Island Definitives II series (FO376). Postcard illustrating MV Athena with Posted on board MV Athena cachet (light blue). |
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Un-named |
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Ship Mail (?) cover. TÓRSHAVN machine cancel dated 29-10-1981 ERIC OLSEN & CO oval cachet (red) and STAR SHIPPING cachet (blue) |