Royal Mail issued a set of stamps and Miniature Sheeton 19th September 2013 The stamps feature stunning paintings of the Atlas, 1813; the Britannia, 1840; the Cutty Sark, 1870; the Clan Matheson, 1919; the Queen Elizabeth, 1940, and the Lord Hinton, 1986:
The Miniature Sheet comprises four stamps featuring dramatic photographs of life on the Atlantic and Arctic convoys. It celebrates the inestimable contribution the Merchant Navy made to the war effort in WW2 in maintaining the lines of supply, despite suffering terrible losses. It also features a quotation from Winston Churchill in its border."The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril."
Source: Royal Mail.
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