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Sailing Ship, by Harut Danielyan, 2024

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'Crossing the Ice Belt at Coffee Gorge' (From a sketch by Dr. Kane), Walrus Sporting, and Fastened to an Iceberg: original illustrations from Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, by Elisha Kent Kane (Library of Congress).

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Ship at sea during a storm, date unk., by Eugene Garin (1922–1994, Ukrainian)

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did anyone else see that seal that just ended up on the street in connecticut

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P- Jacket

The weather is really shitty and you have to go into the tops as a poor sailor because the master has charmingly yelled you up there because the lieutenant wants the sails reefed. So that meant, up you go. Now the officers wore their greatcoats or boatcloaks in this bad weather. A greatcoat is more appropriate.

Lieutenant Pullings here in his greatcoat, while the others around him wear a P-jacket

But what was the poor sailor wearing? He wore a short but thick jacket made of blue wool, also known as a P Jacket - P Coat since 1723. It was once made of pilot cloth, a heavy, coarse, thick, twisted blue cloth with a pile on one side.

In the course of the 19th century, this became somewhat longer and became the so-called Bridge Coat, which was then also worn by officers in contrast to the Greatcoat, but in combination with epaulettes. The P-Jacket remained for the Sailors. Today, this jacket is still very popular and is worn in the various navies, but can also be purchased by everyone else, keeps warm and keeps the wind out.

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The Ionian Mission, by Geoff Hunt (1948-)

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Blue Seas' - The Maitland, by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)

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Old fisherman and a boy, by Georges Jean Marie Haquette (1854-1906)

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A majestic view of a rain-laden cloud blasting hard.  When many clouds gather in the sky in this way and their waters fall like this in the same place, here a phenomenon we call the Flood is formed.-

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-The shores of Dalmatia-

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Why are most of the POW ship models you've showed made of bone? Was the material more common or more likely to survive or are they more interesting to share or something else?

Hi,

oh bone ships are one of my favourite topics. Because yes, they were made by Prisoners of War, mostly at the end of the 18th - early 19th century. To do this, the prisoners were usually kept on prison ships to pass the time, making many small items out of straw and bone (came from their daily meal, or from a comrade who had lost a leg or something), human hair. These items, ice boxes, model ships, etc. were then sold to provide themselves with some amenities.

The models were usually not true to scale, since the men usually did not know what it looked like below the waterline, so the proportions were usually not correct.

If you want to read more, here is a post about it

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Antique Victorian Hard Stone Agate Working Compass Pendant

Source - Boylerpf.com

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Ship in a bottle. Saw someone post that they'd done this on FB and had to recreate it immediately.

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The Ghost Fleet, by Clairborne Gregory, date unk.

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Bald Head Island, by Clairborne Gregory, date unk. 21st century