Anchor Line luggage tag from the National Maritime Museum

shipsshipships:

Rigging and sailors, ca 1900 by National Library NZ on The Commons on Flickr.

fore-and-aft:

jean gaumy

In the yeeeeaaaaar twooooooo thoooooousand…

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todaysdocument:

One hundred and fifty years ago today, on March 9, 1862, the first prophetic battle between ironclads — the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (aka Merrimac) — took place at Hampton Roads, Virginia.   The encounter ended in a standoff, but naval warfare was forever changed.

ummahuntar:

Lynd Ward - Wood Engraving for Alec Waugh’s “Hot Countries” - 1930

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Portal to Lubberland by Duke Riley

rhamphotheca:

2headedsnake: by Joanna Braithwaite  (artodyssey1.blogspot.com)

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SS Harry

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Libertas Aut Mori by Duke Riley

House flag of the Royal Naval Supply and Transport Service. The design is as follows: ‘upon a field azure two anchors in saltire, that in bend sinister surmounting that in bend dexter fouled with cables interlaced all’. From the National Maritime Museum

Fisherman with his catch

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The Great Republic

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Union Jack from the National Maritime Museum

fore-and-aft:

square topsail schooner Pride of Baltimore II