This stamp was issued on 25 Apr 2013. Pictured is a decommissioned lightship. This was one of four stamps included in a booklet commemorating contemporary arts. The Irish sculptor Dorothy Cross painted the former lightship with phosphorous paint and it was moored in Dublin Bay for several weeks in 1999. Cross had a love of the Irish lightships and missed seeing them as they were replaced by buoys. The ship would glow for several hours after dark and then the light would fade. This represented the disappearance of the lightships from the coast.
Former lightship Albatross | 25 Apr 2013
