• Becoming a member of the Ship Stamp Society.


• Visit the site of the ATA Ships Section (American stamp collectors) or Navicula, a German society of ships on stamps collectors. They have an interesting site with every month a new theme.


• Discuss the ships shown on stamps: you may become a member of the Yahoo group "ShipsOnStamps".


• The Stanley Gibbons thematic catalog "Collect Ships on Stamps". The latest edition, 2001, contains information on over 14,250 stamps showing ships.The number of named ships now stands at 3,850. These all appear in the Index section, together with reference by ship type under forty different headings.

The Ship Stamp Society exists for the benefit of all those who collect Ships on Stamps, or related themes such as lighthouses and maritime cancellations.

Members receive, for the sum of £17.00 per year (outside Europe £20.00 if you require Log Book posted via Air Mail),

• Log Book every month, 24 pages of both short and long articles, letters, website listings, questions - and often the answers - and so on.
• Access to the encyclopaedia, previously published as an original and supplements, presently being reorganised into proper alphabetic order. Every known ship stamp is (probably) listed with details varying from half a page to a few words. The cost of this covers the printing cost only.
• Access to the Society's packet circuit, where members exchange stamps at modest cost (UK members only).
• Access to the Society's annual auction (open to ALL members).

None of these is otherwise available. - We do carry out some research for NON Members providing it deals with our theme.

For joining the Society please contact the Secretary, who is :

Tommy Broadley.
10 Heyes Drive,
Lymm,
Cheshire.WA13 0PB.
Tel: 01925 758435.
Fax: 01925 759023.
e-mail address is brad666sss@freenetname.co.uk