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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950157-20-000227
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	POS AM
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200224
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20200224

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Costamare Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001503584
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	DEEP SEA FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT [4412]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			1T
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		POS AM
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-228457
		FILM NUMBER:		20644456

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7 RUE DU GABIAN
		CITY:			MONACO
		STATE:			O9
		ZIP:			MC98000
		BUSINESS PHONE:		377(93)250940

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7 RUE DU GABIAN
		CITY:			MONACO
		STATE:			O9
		ZIP:			MC98000
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 24, 2020.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: right; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-228457</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal; text-transform: uppercase;">Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to </div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal; text-transform: uppercase;"><font style="font-size: 18pt;">Form F-3</font> </div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal; text-transform: uppercase;">Registration Statement </div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">UNDER </div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold;">COSTAMARE INC.</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-weight: bold;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">7 rue du Gabian</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">MC 98000 Monaco</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">+377 93 25 09 40</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-weight: bold;">(Address and telephone number of Registrant&#8217;s principal executive offices)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">850 Library Avenue, Suite 204</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">Newark, Delaware 19711</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">(302) 738-6680</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">With copies to:</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">D. Scott Bennett, Esq.</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">Cravath, Swaine &amp; Moore LLP</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">Worldwide Plaza</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">825 Eighth Avenue</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">New York, New York 10019</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; color: #231F20; font-weight: bold;">(212) 474-1000</div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); text-indent: 18pt;"><font style="font-style: italic;">Approximate Date of Commencement of Proposed Sale of the Securities to the Public:</font> Not Applicable</div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 18pt;">If only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. <font style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif;">&#9744;</font></div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); text-indent: 18pt;">If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. <font style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif;">&#9744;</font></div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); text-indent: 18pt;">If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration
      statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. <font style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif;">&#9744;</font></div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); text-indent: 18pt;">If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier
      effective registration statement for the same offering. <font style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif;">&#9744;</font></div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); text-indent: 18pt;">If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.C. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule
      462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. <font style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif;">&#9744;</font></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 18pt;"><font style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction</font><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&#160;</font><font style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">I.C. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. </font><font style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">&#9744;</font></div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); text-indent: 18pt;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.</div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); text-indent: 18pt;">If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period
      for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards&#8224; provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act <font style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol',sans-serif;">&#9744;</font></div>
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    <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 18pt;">&#8224;The term &#8220;new or revised financial accounting standard&#8221; refers to any updated issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">EXPLANATORY NOTE</font> <br>
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    <div style="text-indent: 18pt; text-align: justify;">This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form F-3/A (Registration No. 333-228457) filed by Costamare Inc. (the &#8220;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Registrant</font>&#8221;)


      with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 19, 2018 (the &#8220;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Registration Statement</font>&#8221;) registering 7,600,000 shares of common stock for resale by the selling shareholders named therein. The Registrant
      is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to terminate the offering and remove from registration the 7,600,000 shares of common stock that have not been sold pursuant to the prospectus contained in the Registration
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; color: #000000;">In accordance with an undertaking in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities which had been registered but
      remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration the 7,600,000 shares of common stock of the Registrant which have been registered for issuance under the Registration Statement but remain unsold. The
      Registration Statement is hereby amended to reflect the termination of the offering and the removal from registration of the 7,600,000 shares of common stock.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-3
      and has duly caused this amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in New York, on February 24, 2020.</div>
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            <div style="color: #000000;">/s/ Anastassios Gabrielides</div>
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