The French Navy celebrates it's 400th anniversary this year. This first-day postmarked souvenir sheet from Saint Pierre et Miquelon commemorates the anniversary and depicts the FS Fulmar as it cruises past an iceberg. The Fulmar was converted into a patrol vessel in 1997 and has been used by the French Navy to patrol the waters around Saint Pierre et Miquelon. Occasionally it participates in multi-national search and rescue missions and Arctic security patrols in the Arctic waters around Greenland and Canada.
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