{"id":18677,"date":"2020-12-16T11:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/?p=18677"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:34:47","slug":"2020-tristan-da-cunha-lightship-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/2020\/12\/2020-tristan-da-cunha-lightship-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Tristan da Cunha Lightship Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have a new country to discuss! On 14 Dec 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tristandc.com\/po\/stamps202013.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tristan da Cunha<\/a> issued a set of 13 definitive stamps picturing modern mail ships. Since Tristan da Cunha is a remote island in the South Atlantic these ships are important to its economy. The \u00a35.00 stamp shows a ship that looks nothing like a lightship but it, in fact, began life as the lightship Elbe 3 in 1911. After being retired it was rebuilt as an adventure cruise ship named Europa<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Former lightship Elbe 3 | 14 Dec 2020\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-tristan-da-cunha\/tdc_s_1001a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"10783\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-tristan-da-cunha\/tdc_s_1001a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-tristan-da-cunha\/thumbs\/thumbs_tdc_s_1001a.jpg\" data-title=\"Former lightship Elbe 3 | 14 Dec 2020\" data-description=\"Former lightship Elbe 3 | 14 Dec 2020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-tristan-da-cunha\/tdc_s_1001a.jpg\" alt=\"Former lightship Elbe 3 | 14 Dec 2020\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jaap for finding this unusual stamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a new country to discuss! On 14 Dec 2020, Tristan da Cunha issued a set of 13 definitive stamps picturing modern mail ships. Since Tristan da Cunha is a remote island in the South Atlantic these ships are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/2020\/12\/2020-tristan-da-cunha-lightship-stamp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[170,159],"tags":[633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22651,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions\/22651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}