Date of Issue: August 14, 1988Scott #: 303
One of the 12 stamps set (seventh definitive issue) issued under the series - Visiting Ships.
S.V. Charless Doggett, under the command of William Driver (1803 - 1886), during the extensive voyage to pacific, on August 1831 carried the unhappy descendants of the crew of HMS Bounty in Tahiti back to Pitcairn Islands.
Source: wikipedia, Scott catalog.
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