Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago lies northeast of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad and Tobago was a Spanish colony from the times of Christopher Columbus to 1802, when it was ceded to Britain. The country obtained independence in 1962. The first stamps of Trinidad were the famous Lady McLeod, a private local post, stamps of 1847. The first definitives for Trinidad were issued in 1851. Tobago used stamps of Trinidad from 1860. Stamps
Actions of 5–6 May 1945 closed and dropped 13 depth charges in a single attack, which destroyed "U-881" with the loss of all hands. These were the last U-boats destroyed in action in American waters; on 8 May, the Germans surrendered, and the last active U-boats in American waters gave themselves up to units of the USN and RCN. Actions of 5–6 May 1945 The last actions of the Battle of the Atlantic in American waters took place on 5–6 May 1945. There were two such actions, against off the Rhode Island coast and , south of Cape Race, both sunk during the same period.