| SPAIN.
Thermal ATM issues 2OO2 |
T66
(74) |
| Historic
ships (4). XABECK (M.M.B.-C.D.M.) |
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Date
of issue :
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June 2002 (1st.
known date : 13.06.02, Philat. Serv.) |
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47 x 27 mm.
- Format type 2 |
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Paper
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Thermal self
adhesive - multicoloured |
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Imprint
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Thermal on
black |
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2+2 (Epelsa
with 5 and 4 digits small and large) |
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0,01
€ to 99,99 € / Set Phil.S.: 0,20-0,25-0,50 € |
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Design
and Printer :
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RCM-FNMT.
Real Casa de la Moneda - Fábrica
Nacional de Moneda y Timbre |
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Printing
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50.000.000
of labels |
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| Click
on the image to enlarge it |
Fourth issue of the ATM
set dedicated to the historic vintage ships.
Among the fishing boats sailing
across the Mediterranean sea there was the Xabeck ("Jabeque"),
a kind of boat used by the Northern Africa pirates. Born around the XV
century the Maghreb corsairs modified their structure giving birth
to a new boat with extended hull, easy to handle and able to be used with
few depth of water.
The Xabeck had three
masts holding latin sails with triangular shape and it was able to be moved
by rows. The most characteristic thing was the leaning foresail. This boat
belongs to the kind called "gondola" ; that means with the bow and stern
more or less lifted.
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The
Spanish
Royal Army started to use the Xabeck around the middle of the
XVIII
century to fight against the Argelian pirates because they were faster
and better armed than the galleys. The Royal Army built
Xabecks
armed to war with twenty cannons placed in a uncovered battery on the upper
deck.
GITANO (Spanish Xabeck
- 1750). Source : Atlas
Enciclopédico de Barcos de Guerra |
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A very similar boat called
Jabeque
Tajo was displayed in previous ATM issue (1998). |
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