#end of the age of sail

[ltwilliammowett]

Ariel and Taeping, China Tea Clippers Race, 1866, by Jack Spurling (1870-1933)

[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.

[cockroachesunite]

Hey, does anyone have a better quality version of this image?

I found it originally in my copy of Through the First Antarctic Night 1898 - 1899 (centennial edition) by Dr Frederick A. Cook

and I would LOVE to print it out like a poster

[the-golden-vanity]

Tagged by beloved Tumblr shipmate @clove-pinks to post nine books I want to read and/or finish reading in 2025... most of these are on my maritime bookshelf already, I just haven't had the free time.

I'm tagging @artcorevelay, @even-in-arcadia, @georges-chambers, @hervey-gervey-chip, @jesslovesboats, @fabledquill, @benjhawkins, @pentecostwaite, and anyone else who would like to participate!

[sageadvice]

Chapter Eighteen - You’re Alive and I’m Still Here, As Some Half-Human Creature Thing

[ Link to Chapter 18 ]

[ Link to Entire Work ]

Spoilers and thoughts below the cut.

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Legitimately cannot believe I made it this far. I’ve never had a brainworm go the distance like this. Should I be studied, or does everyone get a bonus to their Focus stat when they hit their 30th trip around the sun?

But enough about that. Spoiler for the fic: Our lovely heroes are reunited, for better or worse! The world may not be ending, but did anyone really expect that would make it easier? Healing from trauma. A seemingly never-ending camping trip. Frustrations, misinterpretations, and surprising revelations abound. And just what are those crazy Crows up to in Antiva? What reason could they possibly have for dragging Evka and Antoine into their dangerous games?

(This is slowly but surely turning into a Serial that would knock Bellara’s socks off.)

[preblesboys]

Dueling Dude

Happy birthday to the one and only American Navy Sweetheart Stephen Decatur!

I’ve read in a mini biography of his that in one duel, he said “his skill made the duel somewhat unfair so that he’d just cripple the fellow with a ball in the hip” and did so. Must be a signature move of his.

[sunflowerbower]

Look what I just found 🥳 there a charity shop in the next town over that is entirely dedicated to books. I love it!! Found “Frozen in Time” in there last time I went in, and these now 🥰 “Endurance” was £3, and “Madhouse…” was £1!! It’s so cheap too! 🩵

[hadescavedish]

Seeing people used "I'm Not Calling You A Liar" by Florence + Machine for SilverFlint edit >>>>>>>> Anders / Flint pipeline so real.

[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!

[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.

[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

[tatteredxsails]

Like for a starter from Ed!

♡ Multi's, please specify which muse you're using in a comment ♡ If you have an idea you'd like to try out, please don't hesitate to pitch it to me ♡ Not mutual exclusive, but semi-selective ♡ Ed's posts are generally darker in tone

[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

[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.

[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

[review-anon]

hey mod you good?

//Yeah I'm fine I'm just redrawing my sprites.

//I've resized all the sprites from the various fangans and canon, but now its time to focus on my start, starting with Review Anon and well...she has a lot of sprites to put it midly and I'm drawing complete brand new ones for her as well.

//The good news is Review Anon has the most sprites of all the four characters I'm drawing so the others won't be nearly as bad as her.

//Will I get all done this month? I like to think so, heck I think I would be done next week and the arc can start then.

//You will know when a character is finished since I will be doing other stuff alongside it.