Wednesday/ a sinking ship 🛳️

Some 50 million voters have already cast their ballots for the 2024 US Elections (one third of the electorate).
I came across this stamp in my shoebox with on-paper stamps today.

1994 Modern Shipwrecks
Issued Mar. 18, 1994 by Transkei, from the final set of stamps issued by Transkei*
Perf. 14½ x14 | Litho. | No watermark
301 A62 85c |Multicolored | Oceanos**, 1991
*Transkei was a self-governing tribal homeland in South Africa from 1976 to 1994 in the Eastern Cape province. Transkei ceased to exist on Apr. 27, 1994. It was reincorporated into the Republic of South Africa after the 1994 national election.
**MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 off the coast of South Africa when she suffered uncontrolled flooding.
Friends of my parents were on the ship as she was going under 😱, and came away on a lifeboat with nothing other than the clothes that they had been wearing.
[Sources: Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalog, Vol. 6A, Wikipedia]

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