ROYAL MAIL (UK) in 2019 released a magnificent collection of First Day Cover stamps charting the illustrious 500-year seafaring heritage of the Royal Navy. The set features paintings of Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose (1st class), Charles I’s Sovereign of the Seas (later renamed HMS Royal Sovereign and in the mid-17th Century the most potent man o’war afloat: £1.55); HMS Victory; HMS Beagle which carried Charles Darwin on his revolutionary evolutionary voyage (£1.60); ironclad HMS Warrior (£1.55); into the 20th Century with battleships HMS Dreadnought (£1.35) and, later avenger of Hood and slayer of Bismarck, HMS King George V (£1.60). And the Royal Navy story is brought bang up to date with new carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (1st class).
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