#end of the age of sail

[ltwilliammowett]

Wreck of the schooner Kyle Spangler (launched 1856) which sank 1860 off Presque Isle, Great Lakes , photo by Becky Kagan Schott

[cleocatrablossy]

She would be a haunted house kid in high school.

After this it was agreed that Mabel has to give some warning before she pops up after more practice so as to not give anyone a heart attack.

[dreamdancerdotfile]

got my own theme music

plays wherever I are

(x)

[the-golden-vanity]

RIP Belgica crew, if you knew what fanfiction writers were doing to the Terror and Erebus crews, you'd probably be jealous.

[benjhawkins]

Here we have what remains of the Evelina M. Goulart, built at the A.D. Story Shipyard (now the Essex Shipbuilding Museum) in Essex Massachusetts in 1927.

What made her unique was she fished year round- during summer she’d be fitted with a bowsprit and tall fore topmast for swordfishing, and in winter fitted for dragging fishing nets.

In this portrait by Alvaro Acores you can see how she would have been rigged for winter fishing, with a pilot house built over the wheel.

She is only one of seven remaining Essex-built fishing schooners, and has been relatively unchanged since 1927. She continued fishing until she was damaged and sunk by Hurricane Gloria in 1985. She was raised and donated to the museum

Today she sits in the shipyard where she was built as an example of one of the hundreds of vessels that were built in Essex and all across New England.

And here’s me for scale!

[lenievi]

thank you!

I know a lot aren't active anymore since I've had this tumblr since 2014, but thanks to everyone who've followed me for Star Trek in the last four years, and to anyone who interacts with my posts, and who is staying despite me jumping from ship to ship, character to character, and who enjoys my rambling <3

[thekenobee]

Master and Commander- Crack 3

[tatteredxsails]

Like for a starter from Ed!

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[to-skit-or-not-to-skit]

personally, i find it fascinating how the warriors fandom deals with aus. anything goes usually, and most of the time people come up with really cool ideas for these little battle kitties. it's really interesting because it follows this pattern of bad books where the books do not utilize its full potential, so the fandom has to do it because the canon just wasnt good enough. and the truth is the books COULD have been good. in all honesty, the premise of kitty cats worshipping cat god and fighting in the woods really isn't that bad? it makes for some interesting scenarios.

but since the erins are stupid and don't think about what they write, we get kittypet xenophobia and ableism and misogyny and no self awareness. without all the horrible writing and shit character moments and discrimination, these books could be something to look fondly back upon for their writing, but they're not. the fans have to fill in the gaps in the erins' writing with maps and aus, because the books are so bad that it leaves readers wanting more than the erins are willing to give, because they honestly don't care about readers. but the fandom does, and the fandom makes aus and maps and art of this silly little battle cat series. and i think that's great

[doverstar]

just cannot stop thinking about fire and hemlock by diana wynne jones. it keeps spiraling back into my brain. can't stop. going to have to read it again-

[ltwilliammowett]

Turban Shell with a scrimshaw of the Great Eastern. Hand engraved, onboard ship, "with a penknife" by C H Wood 1866

This presentation piece was commisioned by the ship's Chief Engineer William Driver, for his brother Charles in 1866, to commemorate the laying of the transatlantc telegraph cable.

The inscriptions, in addition to the ship's dimensions, read:

 "A Present from the Gt Eastern (Lying in the River Mersey)."

"To Charles Driver from his brother William"

"As a gratifying remembrance of laying the submarine Telegraph Cable of 1866 from England and America, and recovering the last Cable of 1865. And with triumphant success accomplished the laying of that also"

"J Anderson Commander"  (Sir James Anderson was Captain of the Great Eastern from 1865 to 1866)

"W Driver Chief Engineer S crew"

signed Eng "With a penknife by C Wood.

[thebaffledcaptain]

Some more drawings from dear old whaleman George Folger. I loved these because you can tell he's revisiting them; he's determined to get them right, even when no one is going to see them.

The doodles are also getting sparser, to my disappointment. It's a little bit sad, honestly—whereas he started the log with his name in big block letters, once you get a year, two years into the voyage, the drawings kind of just fade out. Perhaps they're losing their novelty.

[neosatsuma]

*thinks about Black Sails and ExU: Calamity at once*

*begins full-body trembling like a chihuahua*

[partyinthemysterymachine]

rubs face

due to Shit Weather and Medical Complexities, ch71 of GOOMT is sort of Very Delayed and Behind Schedule for writing, BUT—

i prommy i will get it it out sometime next month <3

[transmalewife]

while succession is a strong contender for second best show ever made, compared to black sails the fandom is very much this

[the-golden-vanity]

@fabledquill @pathfinderswiftpen @xserpx YEAH.

I think that's exactly it. This show really focuses on the brutality of the era—dueling culture, corporal punishment, the fact that even minor infractions could be punished with death—but never in a way that challenges any of it.

There's something skin-crawlingly awful about the floggings, canings, and gauntlet-runnings we see in Hornblower, despite the very obvious fake blood, and it's the fact that this type of punishment clearly happens semi-regularly and doesn't seem to mean much to anybody except the guy currently being brutalized.

It's awful in a completely different way than the flogging scene from The Terror, which [SPOILERS] made the sailors called to witness it visibly uncomfortable, and was a case of a drunken captain on a doomed voyage venting his insecurities on someone who couldn't fight back.

In bleak, grimy The Terror (as, indeed, it was by the early Victorian era), the brutality of flogging is treated as something shocking and unusual, but in clean, shiny Hornblower, it's just Tuesday morning.

I felt like I had to take a shower after watching every episode of Hornblower*, but MAN, I'm upset there's no more episodes for me to watch.

*Despite the conspicuous absence of physical grime, this show made me feel the visceral, soul-sucking awfulness of Age of Sail realities much more than aesthetically grimy Age of Sail shows like The Terror and The North Water ever did. And I'm not even sure the creators were doing any of it intentionally? Idk, if you've seen this show, please weigh in, I can't be the only one thinking about this.