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Chimneys afire🐋

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Scrimshawed whale bone ring with whaling scenes, made by a sailor, 19th century

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“White Horses” Beautiful white capped waves in the sea breeze. A pretty nautical blue on a near white base with black speckles. MothyandtheSquid.com

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Oak, Hemp, and Powder: Trafalgar, 1805, by Charles Edward Dixon, 1920

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Shark and octopus tiles

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Whale shark! World’s biggest fish!

[ID: an illustration of a whale shark swimming to the right in the ocean, surrounded by remoras and little fish. End.]

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Giving me a bag of sea pottery and glass was a bad idea. I'm OBSESSED. So here's a tea clipper on a teacup shard, will make it in a necklace. Now I'm thinking of stories in fragments, tales about ships on sea-rounded porcelain and glass

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 I rearranged the treasure box on my main altar display for more of a sea theme. There are mostly fossils on display here, consisting of shark teeth, ammonites, pieces of coral and orthoceras fossils. 

くコ:彡 ࿐༄࿔くコ:彡 ࿐༄࿔くコ:彡 ࿐༄࿔ くコ:彡 ࿐༄࿔ くコ:彡

There are also some old keys, pennies and a couple of crystals, which are black kyanite and black tourmaline (though the tourmaline is kinda hidden, you can kinda see it peaking out near the bigger coral piece in the last couple photos).

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rosy morning porthole view | source

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from The Sage Vintage's October 2021 drop via Instagram

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Introduction to Pirates: Pirate Ships

The exact design of ships changes by the time and place of their manufacturing, but they had common builds and terminology.

Directions on a ship are:

bow or prow (front)

starboard (right, as seen when standing on the ship facing prow)

port (left, as seen when standing on the ship facing prow)

aft or stern (rear)

amidship (in the middle of the ship)

windward (the direction the wind is blowing)

leeward (the opposite of windward, sheltered from the wind or downwind)

Important places on a ship are:

bilge (the lowest part of the ship, the part most likely to leak and be filthy)

crow's nest (a small platform near the top of the mast for lookouts)

fo'cs'le or forecastle (the section of the upper deck in front of the foremast)

helm (the steering wheel. contains the bittacle/bitacola/binnacle, a box which holds the compass)

hold (storage space in the lower part of the ship)

hull (the body of the ship)

keel (the underside of the ship)

mizzenmast (the largest mast. on a ship with three or more masts, the mast aft of a mainmast)

poop deck (the highest deck, usually above the captain's quarters)

main (the longest mast)

quarterdeck (the aft part of the upperdeck)

Depending on the size of the ship, it may have one or multiple decks and masts. The flagship of Blackbeard, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was an English-built frigate. It was a 200-ton, 103 foot long vessel with three masts (the fore, the mizzen, and the main). It allegedly had 40 cannons, though only 30 have since been found (far more than most of the ships it attacked) and as many of four anchors, which could weigh up to 3,100lb and take over an hour to raise.

Vessels such as pirate ships cannot accurately be called boats, this is a pet peeve of many nautical workers.

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Visited an old mid-1800’s clipper ship today! It’s in the process of being preserved, and in some parts restored. The tour inside was super interesting, especially (for me) the list of recommended items to bring with you for the voyage

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ⓘ This user got lost at sea and came back a little bit wrong

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Alfred the giant octopus by Sowoolsocool on Etsy

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