The Caracca, a Portugese ship, which is depicted in this Maltese stamp released in 2006. It was popularly known as the Gran Caracca Di Rodi. It was an awesome war machine in it's time weighing in at a supposed 2000 tons, having six decks(two below the waterline), being coated in lead and thought to be unsinkable(not the last ship to have been thought so). Christopher Columbus used to watch this ship as it waited ashore when he was a little boy.
The
Bremen, a German built passenger liner, is depicted on this German stamp released in 2004 which is the 75th anniversary of it winning the
Blue Riband, which was an unofficial award given to passenger liners in regular service crossing the Atlantic in record time.
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