- Condition: MNH (**)
- Year: 2012
| - Catalogue: |
Scott |
Michel |
| - Number(s): |
4232 |
Bl-345 |
| - Catalog value: |
15 $ |
11,5 € |
- Internal ID: 011_21
- Size: 140 x 65 mm
- Categories: 100 years since the sinking of the Titanic. Ship,
Boat.
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100 years since the sinking of
the Titanic.
Date of issue: 13 April 2012
Magyar Posta is issuing an exclusive commemorative stamp block
in memory of the Titanic and Dr Árpád Lengyel, the ship’s
doctor on the first vessel to hurry to the aid of the Titanic, the
British steamship RMS Carpathia. The main motif of this unusual
philatelic product is the Titanic heading towards the iceberg,
while the stamps show parts of the liner. In the top right corner
there is a portrait of Dr Lengyel and the outline of RMS Carpathia.
The unusual feature of this release is that, in addition to offset
printing and embossing, iridescent spot-varnish screenprinting,
usually a security device, has been used and the particles
scattered across the surface sparkle icily. The first day cover for
the block features a portrait of Dr Árpád Lengyel, while the
silhouette of a lifeboat has been used for the special postmark.
Forty thousand copies of the stamp block designed by the graphic
artist Arnold Feke have been made by the banknote printing company
Pénzjegynyomda.
The Titanic was built in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in
Belfast, Northern Ireland, and when she was launched, she was the
world’s largest steam-powered passenger liner. She left
Southampton at noon on 10 April 1912 with 2207 pas-sengers on
board. Several ice warnings were received on the evening before the
disaster, but the high volume of telegrams prevented some from
reaching the bridge. Although the Titanic was the largest and most
elegant vessel on the transatlantic route, it was not the fastest,
which jeopardised the planned arrival in New York on 16 April 1912.
For this reason it steamed full ahead and did not try to avoid the
potentially dangerous area of drifting ice. At 11.40 pm on 14 April
the watch spotted a floating iceberg. The officer on duty ordered
the ship to be steered to the left and the port propeller to be put
into reverse. A long time passed before the gigantic vessel slowly
began to turn, and so the iceberg punctured a series of fatal holes
below the waterline on the starboard side of the ship. The captain
immediately sent distress signals and gave the order to abandon
ship. RMS Carpathia heard the Mayday but was too far from the scene
to offer immediate help. The Titanic sank at 2.20 am on 15 April.
The people in the lifeboats were picked up by the Carpathia about
75 minutes later. A few of the Hungarian passengers on the Titanic
survived, such as Mátyás Reischl, a waiter in one of the first
class restaurants, and the Hungarian emigrants Lujza Hoffer, and
Antal Kisik and his wife. The ship’s doctor of the Carpathia,
which hurried to the Titanic’s aid, was Dr Árpád Lengyel, who
did all within his power to save the survivors, endangered by
hypothermia. The survivors gave him a medallion in gratitude. His
grave is in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest. (Source:
hu.wikipedia.org)
TECHNICAL CARACTERISTICS
Order code: 2012050030011 (block), 2012050060012 (FDC)
Date of issue: 13 April 2012
Face value: HUF 1600
Number of copies issued: 40,000
Perforated size of stamps: 40 x 30 mm,
Imperforated external size of the block: 140 x 65 mm
Printed by Pénzjegynyomda
Designed by Arnold Feke
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