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Sailing ship on a calm sea by moonlight, by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)

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Passing ship on a moonlit night, by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)

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Figurehead, probably American, 1855

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Sailors and the Love - Songs

Sailors saw themselves as extremely desirable love partners who thought they could get away with anything and keep a woman in every port.

The Sailor’s Farewel, by Henry Hudson, 1785 (x)

Even though folk songs, shanties and sailor songs like to talk about loyalty and how much the sweetheart longs for her sailor. There were also other songs that sounded a bit different, even very mean, like this one.

I married a wife and her name was Grace; I oft times cursed her ugly face. (…) If i could get one foot on shore, some other pretty girl I’d marry once more. (The Press Gang, 19th century)

Or like this one:

Oh, when I was a little boy, my mother always told me that if i didn’t kiss the girls, my lips would go all mouldy. Oh once i had a n…er girl, an’ she was fat and lazy. And i had a spanish girl, she nearly drove me crazy. Oh, one i had a scolding wife, and she was far from civil. I clapped a plaster on her mouth and sent her to the divvle. (Haul away Joe, Shanty 19th century)

That’s why the ladies were given the advice even then: Check carefully with whom you bind yourself and best keep away from a Sailor, because they are not faithful.

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Why did pirates have nicknames ?

Well, basically it was quite simple, on the one hand to hide their true name and protect themselves. But that often didn’t help because it quickly became known who was hiding behind it. But the other thing was that the ladies and gentlemen tried to cause a stir with their nicknames, so that the victims would be afraid when they heard names like Blackbeard, Black Sam or Half Butt. Whereas I rather think that they laughed themselves to death when they heard Half Butt. Some got their names by their appearance, like Stede Bonnet the Gentleman Pirate, or Henry Avery the Arch Pirate. Others because of their appearance or some distinctive feature, like John Rackham also known as Calico Jack or Edward Teach also known as Blackbeard. John Derdrake, known as Jack of the Baltic, got this name because of his hunting ground, while Olivier Levasseur, also known as La Buse/ the Buzzard, was known for his speed in capturing a ship.

Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard, 1718 depicting the battle between Blackbeard and Lieutenant Maynard in Ocracoke Bay, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930) (x)

Although one might think that they all had a nickname, this was not the case. A very large number of them were also known by their normal, clear names, because it didn’t matter to them whether they were known or not, it was all about the prey, and the flag was usually enough to cause fear and terror.

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An old OFMD piece based off Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

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Ships at Port, by Antoine Alexandre Auguste Fremy (1816-1885)

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Racing home, China Clippers Chrysolite and Stornoway, by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)

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Ship in Moonlight, by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

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Logbook of HMS Achilles Commanded by Captain E. Kelly, kep by E[dmund] P[ercy] F[enwick] G[eorge] Grant, 1882-4

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The Varberg is towed from Marstrand in July 1719) by Christian Mølsted

During the Great Northern War (1700 – 1721) the Danish forces successfully attacked the Swedish harbour, town and fortress of Marstrand in July 1719, which resulted in the captiure of the Swedish frigate Varberg, which in the painting is shown being pulled clear of the Swedish guns in the fortress.

Varberg was a fourth rate 36 gun frigate built at Karlskrona. She was armed with 18 x 8lbrs on her lower gun deck, 18 x 4lbrs on her upper gundeck and 6 x 3lbrs on her quarterdeck and fo'c's'le.

She was taken into service with the Danish fleey under the name Crown Prize of Denmark. In 1730, she was handed over to the Danish East India Company, which however went bankrupt. The ship was purchased in 1732 by the Asian Company and was named Crown Prince Christian. She made the first trip to Canton by any Danish ship in 1730-32.

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Fine 19th C. Scrimshaw and Prisoner-of-War Artifacts including finely detailed bone ship models, yarn swifts, busks, pie crimpers, inlaid boxes, etc.

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An enamel, glass and diamond pendant with a ship, Central Europe, circa 1780-90

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A model ship made by a Napoleon's prisoner of war, carved from bone, early 19th century

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I would kill someone for the Terror and Erebus cigarette card. I would do horrible things to get my grubby little hands on it.