#henry harland

[thebeautifulbook]

THE CARDINAL’S SNUFF BOX by Henry Harland. (London/New York: John Lane, 1903). Illustrated by G.C. Wilmhurst.

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[incorrect-bestie-duo]

Scraptrap: This is my son Harland and their brother Michael.

Henry: Are they not both your sons? Why is Michael not given the son title?

Scraptrap: I don't like him.

[echotherainwing]

Hey everyone! Here are some sketches I made while I took a hand break from finally finishing another background piece!

[ID]

The image on the left shows a sketched out griffon with a derpy expression with the name beside it reading: Timmy. Next to it, there is a sketched out dinosaur with the name Harland next to it. Then to the right of Harold there is a snake-chicken thing named Henry.

The image on the right shows a Sandwing named Caracal, throwing a piece of dough, with customers chatting with him, smiling. In the background, them have a window showing a building with vines on top of the window, and a cat on top of a shelf. In the middle ground, there is the Sandwing Caracal with a table in front of him. The table shows a cut up cucumber, eggs, a water bucket, and a fruit bowl along with some glasses for the customers.

[END ID]

Also, don’t be afraid to ask me anything! I can draw requests or any WoF character designs including your own! :)

[meggie-jolly]

Since Red, White and Royal Blue is everywhere and the first time I read it was when I was deep in the Roswell, New Mexico fandom, the vague Malex RW&RB AU that spawned in my brain back then has reared it’s head again and wants to be shared.

I won’t turn it into a full fic, I know myself, that won’t happen, but I’d like to share my headcanons and I might write some scenes or snippets.

The obvious choice would be making Alex, Alex, but in my head Alex Manes makes more sense as Prince Henry.

I could probably make Harland Manes the King or the unnamed father of Jesse, but I think Jesse get's to be King in this AU even though that is a scary thought. But Jesse can't get the roll of Cathrine, he doesn't deserve it

Alex is the fourth son, so not even the spare, but the spare of the spare of the spare. Jesse despises him for being gay but I think in this version the physical abuse is a little more subtle, he is the king after all. Still an abusive asshole though.

Alex still became a soldier in the Royal Air Force and he still lost his leg.

Liz is the daughter of the head chef in the palace and good friends with Alex. He often takes her along with him on trips, when he can.

Maria geht’s to take over Pez’ role of rich, eccentric best friend

Maria and Liz are the only people outside the Royal family and certain members of the staff that know that Alex is gay

I kind of want to include Kyle in this whole thing somehow, but I haven’t figured out how yet

Michael isn’t actually the first son, but part of this AU’s Whitehouse trio.

The president is actually Ann Evans. (I want to keep the President a women, that's the only reason I picked Ann over Dave) So Max and Isobel are the first children.

So basically, the pod squad is the White House Trio

All three of them were still found as children and adopted (I kind of would like to keep them being aliens, but I don't know how to make that work, so I guess they are human)

Michael was adopted by Walt Sanders who is now the head of security in the White House. He and Michael live in the White House as well

The Evanses treat Michael as a third child by now and he's just as important and popular in the eyes of the public as Isobel and Max

So basically Michael is Nora in this, which fits very well imo

I'm gonna keep adding on to this headcanon and I'd love to get questions about it to inspire me to get deeper into it.

You can find all the posts about this AU here.

[viornefni]

You're in my head

I had plans for the weekend

But wound up with you instead

Back here again

Got me deep in my feelings

When i should be in your bed

You and i go back to like '09 it's like forever

And you were there my lonely nights, yeah, keeping me together

So wouldn't it make sense if I was yours and you could call me your baby

But we say we're just, say we're just

Friends

Just for now

Yeah but friends don't say words that

Make friends feel like more than just

Friends

Just for now

Now I'm over pretending

So let's put the "end" in friends

Friends

Just for now

Yeah but friends don't say words that

Make friends feel like more than just

Friends are not supposed to get too close

And feel emotions that we're feeling now, now, now

We ain't slowing down, down, down

But once we cross the line, there's no denying you and I can never turn around, round, round

Know we'll never be the same

You and I go back to like '09 it's like forever

And you were there my lonely nights, yeah, keeping me together

So wouldn't it make sense if I was yours and you could call me your baby

But we say we're just, say we're just

Friends

Just for now

Yeah but friends don't say words that

Make friends feel like more than just

Friends

Just for now

Now I'm over pretending

So let's put the "end" in friends

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[blueiskewl]

The Titanic and Titan

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told news outlets that his submersible was “Invulnerable”.

He is one of five who died on his own invulnerable submersible 'Titan'.

The submersible was carrying an expedition of tourists, including Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, Dawood's son, Suleman, and the founder of OceanGate, Stockton Rush.

OceanGate Inc. is a privately held U.S. company operating out of Everett, Washington, that provides crewed submersibles for tourism, industry, research and exploration. The company was founded in 2009 by Stockton Rush.

In 2021, OceanGate began taking paying customers to visit the Titanic shipwreck in its Titan submersible. As of 2022, the cost of an OceanGate expedition to the Titanic shipwreck is US$250,000 per person. On 18 June 2023, during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck site, contact with the company's Titan submersible was lost prompting an international, ongoing search and rescue operation. Among the five passengers on the expedition is OceanGate's founder, Rush.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time. It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of an ocean liner or cruise ship. The disaster drew public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works.

RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from the British Isles, Scandinavia, and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada.

[ltwilliammowett]

Hello, I've been branching out to other parts of history, namely The Golden Age of Piracy as of late, and I've been interested in learning the terminology for parts of the vessels used. Would you happen to have a good diagram showcasing a ship? When I research it myself I find a lot of conflicting information and need a reliable guide to fall back on. Thank you for your time.

Hi,

I have a couple, so here are a few that might help you.

Otherwise, you can also look under one of the tags - infographic and parts of a ship, I have more there. You can also find larger explanatory posts under the master list Ship Types, design, building, development and parts or Pirates, but they are not yet complete.

I hope i was able to help you, wish you a nice evening.

[where-our-stories-start]

Tortall Fancast Series - Thom of Trebond

As children, Thom and Alanna were so much alike in face and body shape as to be mistaken for each other, if dressed alike. The only distinguishing feature of the twins at that time was the length of their hair. Both were short and skinny, with copper hair and purple eyes. When Alanna visited him at age eighteen she commented on his beard and height, suggesting he grew up to be taller than her. (x)

Okay so I already know this from my ASoIaF blog, but damn, finding redheads in medieval clothes is hard. Also, canonically Thom died at 20, but it's hard to find teenage fancasts, so I've included some who are technically too old but fit the vibe.

KEREM AÇARSÖZ - SEHZADE SELIM (MAGNIFICENT CENTURY)

Açarsöz seems to be 8-10 years old, although I cannot find a birthdate for him. He plays a young Ottoman prince in Magnificent Century. It can be somewhat difficult to navigate footage if you don't speak Turkish, but all episodes are readily available online, mostly on youtube. Costume design is distinctly Ottoman, but some of it works as general medieval European.

GABRIEL AND TRISTAN HARLAND - YOUNG CNUT AND ESGAR (THE LAST KINGDOM)

So there's not much footage of either of these kids, and in at least 1/3 of it they've got knives held to their throats, but I included them because they're identical twins with great vibes for Thom and Alanna at the beginning of SotL. The only source for their age I could find puts them at 10-11 filming The Last Kingdom, and while I'm not sure how reliable it is, that looks about right.

YIGIT ÜST - SEHZADE SELIM (MAGNIFICENT CENTURY)

Üst plays an older version of Açarsöz's character on Magnificent Century. I couldn't find an age for him, but he seems to have been in his early/mid teens during filming. He's often in a turban, but when he's not, he's got great hair for Thom. He shares Thom's dignified-and-broody vibe, too, which I like.

RUAIRI O'CONNOR - HENRY VIII (THE SPANISH PRINCESS)

O'Connor was in his late 20s when filming The Spanish Princess. There is ample footage of him both clean-shaven and with a beard. Since he's playing a king, his clothes are mostly too lavish for Thom, but they can work if you pick your footage carefully, and Henry VIII definitely lends himself to Thom's mercurial nature.

EDDIE REDMAYNE - JACK JACKSON (PILLARS OF THE EARTH)

Redmayne was also in his late 20s in this role. His hair is more auburn than copper, although it varies by shot. Clothing is 12th century English, and Redmayne definitely has Thom's brooding vibe.

TOM HIDDLESTON - HAL/HENRY V (THE HOLLOW CROWN)

So Hiddleston's character in The Hollow Crown is basically nothing at all like Thom, but there are still moments the vibe feels right. He's a primary character in three episodes, so there's ample footage of him (both clean-shaven and with a short beard!) At roughly 30 during filming he's far older than Thom ever got, but I still like him as a fancast.

If you've got any additions, or any requests for other characters to do, please let me know! The full series can be found here.

[notanotherinfjblog]

A small collection

I do still intend to keep writing the other more detailed How to spot guides for each MBTI type individually, but in the meantime, I collected some interviews with several people of each type that you can click through and maybe it helps you see the similarities not just of the people of the same type, but also based on the high functions that they share. I also tried to not exclusively use native English speakers because I’m personally a bit fed up with the anglocentrism of this site and the internet in general (though of course I’m also constrained in my choices here that I can only use people that I know of, which are mostly European), but if I could find some, I included interviews of them speaking both English and their native language. Even if you don’t understand that language, I still recommend looking into those interviews. Not understanding what someone is saying can sometimes actually help focussing on their body language itself.

INTJ:

Margaret Atwood (writer) 

Joyce Carol Oates (writer)

David Fincher (director)

Michael Emerson (actor)

Tom Rachman (writer & journalist)

Patrick Salmen (writer, interview is in German) 

Martin Sonneborn (satirist, journalist & politician, interview is in German)

ENTJ:

Katie McGrath (actress)

Keira Knightley (actress)

Nicholas Hoult (actor)

Anthony Head (actor)

Elijah Wood (actor)

Daniel Radcliffe (actor)

Tamsin Greig (actress)

Markus Zusak (writer)

Zach Woods (actor, comedian & director)

Malala Yousafzai (education activist)

INTP:

Harald Lesch (physicist, astronomer & science journalist, interview is in German)

Axel Milberg (actor & writer, interview is in German)

Peter Capaldi (actor)

Jane Goodall (primatologist & anthropologist)

Neil Gaiman (writer)

R.H. Thomson (actor)

Rooney Mara (actress)

Matthias Brandt (actor & writer, interview is in German)

Kai Meyer (writer, interview is in German)

ENTP:

David Tennant & Matt Smith (actors)

Hugh Grant (actor)

Tilda Swinton (actress)

Saoirse Ronan (actress)

Eddie Redmayne (actor)

David Mitchell (writer)

Bill Nighy (actor)

Florence Welch (musician)

Louisa Harland (actress)

Richard Ayoade (comedian, writer, director & actor)

INFJ:

Colin Morgan (actor)

Freddie Highmore (actor)

Barkhad Abdi (actor)

James Phelps (actor, since he’s with his twin: he’s the one on the right)

Ewen Bremner (actor)

Amy Acker (actress)

Rohinton Mistry (writer)

Audrey Magee (writer)

Jenny Erpenbeck (writer, interview is in German)

ENFJ:

Emma Thompson (actress & screenwriter)

Wes Anderson (director & writer)

Ulrich Wickert (journalist & writer, interview is in German)

Marshall Curry (director)

Eleanor Catton (writer)

Alissa York (writer)

INFP:

Kristen Stewart (actress)

Hozier (musician)

Rupert Grint (actor)

Asa Butterfield (actor)

Eddie Marsan (actor)

Helen Oyeyemi (writer)

Christopher Annen (musician, interview is in German)

ENFP:

Andrew Garfield (actor)

Dev Patel (actor)

Katherine Parkinson (actress, plus her being a prime example of intuitives barely knowing how to survive)

Michael Sheen (actor)

Jan Philipp Zymny (writer & comedian, interview is in German)

Chris Columbus (director)

Maggie Stiefvater (writer)

Lisa McGee (screenwriter & playwright)

Lars Eidinger (actor, interview is in German)

Hannah Herzsprung (actress, interview is in German)

ISTJ:

Felicity Jones (actress)

Lindsay Duncan (actress) 

Famke Janssen (actress, plus an interview in her native Dutch)

Maggie Smith (actress)

Britt Robertson (actress)

Elizabeth Nunez (writer & professor)

Ken Follett (writer)

Vicky Krieps (actress, plus an interview in her native Luxembourgish with subtitles available, and in German and in French)

ESTJ:

Eliza Taylor (actress)

Letitia Wright (actress)

Charles Dance (actor)

Matt Damon (actor & screenwriter)

Sandra Bullock (actress)

Henry Cavill (actor)

Alba August (actress & musician, plus an interview in her native Swedish and Danish)

Alicia Vikander (actress, plus an interview in her native Swedish with subtitles available)

ISFJ:

Gemma Chan (actress & model)

Laura Dern (actress)

Crystal Reed (actress)

Natalia Dyer (actress)

Arthur Darvill (actor)

Jordan Rodrigues (actor & dancer)

ESFJ:

Olivia Colman & Helena Bonham Carter (actresses)

Lupita Nyong’o (actress)

Bradley James (actor)

Scott Moir (figure skater)

John Krasinski (actor, director & screenwriter)

Carey Mulligan (actress)

Emilia Clarke (actress)

Tom Hopper (actor)

Tomi Adeyemi (writer)

Hugh Jackman (actor)

ISTP:

Christoph Waltz (actor & director, plus an interview in his native German)

Harrison Ford & Ryan Gosling (actors)

Ruth Wilson (actress)

Björk (musician, plus an interview in her native Icelandic)

Devon Bostick (actor)

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (actor, plus an interview in his native Danish)

Evan Peters (actor)

Christopher Lloyd (actor)

Christian Bale (actor)

Peter Maffay (musician, interview is in German)

ESTP:

Zendaya (actress & musician)

Oscar Isaac (actor)

James Acaster (comedian)

Jodie Comer (actress)

Jördis Triebel (actress, plus an interview in her native German with subtitles available)

Stromae (musician, plus an interview in his native French with subtitles available)

Sabaa Tahir (writer)

Tatiana Maslany (actress)

Emilio Sakraya (actor & musician, interview is in German)

Anya Taylor-Joy (actress, plus an interview in her native Spanish)

ISFP:

Santiago Cabrera (actor, plus an interview in his native Spanish)

Ben Howard (musician)

Tessa Virtue (figure skater)

Karen Gillan (actress)

Rachel McAdams (actress)

Gael García Bernal (actor, plus an interview in his native Spanish)

Audrey Tautou (actress, plus an interview in her native French)

Henning May (musician, interview is in German with subtitles available)

Jannis Niewöhner (actor, plus an interview in his native German)

Évelyne Brochu (actress, plus an interview in her native French)

ESFP:

Tom Holland (actor)

Maisie Williams (actress)

Billie Piper (actress)

Robert Sheehan (actor)

Margot Robbie (actress)

Jim Carrey (actor & comedian)

Omar Sy (actor, plus an interview in his native French)

Taika Waititi (director, actor, comedian & screenwriter)

Alexander Rybak (musician, plus an interview in his native Norwegian and Russian with subtitles available for both)

[phoebehalliwell]

What would be your ideal cast for the next generation in 2023?

hmm that's difficult mainly bc i really don't watch that many teen drama so i don't have a solid list of actors in the appropriate age range lmao but i love a challenge nonetheless so here we go!!

for wyatt i would kind of love to cast something of an already famous person to kind of really hit home the idea of Legacy tm but the issue is bc wyatt is so big in narrative he kind of just. gets less plot. so that actually might not work. so tbh really i think the move would lowkey be casting a nepo baby. honestly i would love wyatt russell (same name besties?!?!?) but he is just a shade old. if you've only seen him in falcon and the winter soldiers i am begging you to expand and see his cali babe range.... he's in black mirror, 22 jump street, ingrid goes west, lodge 49... babes. like. beyond that, charlie hall who was in sex lives of college girls as that like. really manic guy whitney went out with. and then third option but also on the older side would be alex roe who played the male lead on the tv siren that i think like. only five people watched (excluding myself: four). i think he could swing the necessary earnest energy.

chris honestly should probably be The Star kind of hte one who brings the most draw to the show ideally someone who already has something of a fanbase in a gifset before i've used thomas doherty before who checks two boxes in that he already has an established fan base coming from both the descendant's franchise & also the gossip girl reboot and of course he is also devastatingly handsome in a very cliche way and we already know can play a slut. so that's actually three boxes. another option which i thnk would Slay but again he's a little older would be logan lerman <3 like. y'all see it rite? wild card would be tommy martinez.

for melinda i think a couple solid options would be sarah catherine hook from first kill, sarah desjardins from. well im gonna say yellowjackets but i know her from riverdale lmao. or kaitlyn dever from booksmart also potentially kaylee bryant from legacies or brenna damico from descendants

rest of the next gen under the cut ❤️

for the twins tamora & kat, ideally, they are played by twins. but i do not know a lot of famous acting twins those would have to be found. however, some actors i really like would be liv hewson from santa clarita diet (gone too soon, rip). i think louisa harland from derry girls could be really fun. katherine langford from. well. best known for 13rw but fuck that show. wild card would be storm reid from a wrinkle in time.

henry jr i will be honest i have no idea what he looks like in my head other than he has dark hair. so i'm just gonna spit out some options. archie renaux from shadow and bone. gavin leatherwood from sabrina maybe. mekki leeper from slocg. anirudh pisharody from 9-1-1. booboo steward from (twilight) julie and the phantoms. asher angel from shazam.

pj functionally serves as the leader of the cupitches so i would love to again see her as someone with a good amount of draw honestly i would love to see danielle rose russell as her like those scenes in legacies where she plays lizzie disguised as hope is the exact vibe we're going for. other excellent options imo would be madelyn cline or sabrina carpenter

parker and pj together kind of carry the emotional brunt of the cupitches mainly because peyton is so young it's just easier to defer to her sisters til she's old enough to properly shoulder the burden of a solo narrative. so w both pj and parker the actress needs to slay the solid exterior // cracks slip through; for pj that's the super cool capable princess form parker that's the badass unflinching warrior, both of them are hiding A Lot. so really, any of the pj castings could work for parker imo and vice versa. but some parker specific ones would be savannah lee may from julie and the phantoms, i love that she's kind of got like this baby faced nice energy but can play just like the mean girl. i would love that dichotomy w parker of someone who does not look violent always packing a knife you know? other than that: emma myers from wednesday, odessa azion, or emily alyn lind from gossip girl (tho between you and me eal is my personal fancast for penn)

for peyton she really is the baby of the family so again it would ideally probably be someone new to the scene bc they're so young but i think good existing options would be trinity likins who plays jellybean on riverdale or shay rudolph from the babysitters club.

and then as other casts for the eventual bianca mimi keene from sex education or amita suman from shadow and bone. for melinda's roommate ale mariselo zumbado from genera+ion possibly, ale's character is mexican so i would really love a mexican actress to be cast. google is not aiding me in this hunt. melinda's (new) whitelighter effie freya mavor from skins can defo do the scottish accent, i also think gracie dzienny from first kill & slocg could bring that necessarily wackadoodle energy. over with kat's plotline viola could be played by bola koleosho. more characters to come who ideally would also fit here but no spoilers yet !!

[jennyjim-coast-2-coast]

Monday 15 May - London

After a reviving sleep and FaceTime with Henry and Belle, we headed south of the river in the vicinity of Tower and London Bridges. Visited HMS Belfast, constructed by Harland and Wolff - the former employer of by riding buddy Merv, who worked there in Belfast as an industrial radiographer.

The lovely thing about London is the mixture of old and new, the labyrinthine Tube and the ability to pop your head up in all sorts of interesting areas. So that’s what we did, feeling like we were moving around a Monopoly board.

We also used an app called GPSMyCity to do a Charles Dickens walking tour, the highlight of which was a drink at Ye Old Cheshire Cheese - a dinking house apparently frequented by Dickens and dating back to 1538. Like the Tube, it is also labyrinthine. It is poky, dark and as you descend, new rooms of drinkers and more stairs to further depths appear!

[incorrect-bestie-duo]

Scraptrap: You made Harland cry.

Henry: Harland always cries!

Harland, tearing up: That's not true!

[just-an-emily-existing]

~Main 12 Original Drivers and Firemen~

~Thomas~

Driver: Teddy Harris Welch

Fireman: Connor Duffy Charlton

~Edward~

Driver: Rickey Sage Brock

Fireman: Philander Rusty Tailor

~Henry~

Driver: Alvin Chauncey Albinson

Fireman: Kendrick Katt Michael

~Gordon~

Driver: Tylor Rollie Carman

Fireman: Terrell Arnie Woodcock

~James~

Driver: Ely Harland Underwood

Fireman: Kayden Ellery Langdon

~Percy~

Driver: Carmela Carola Russo

Fireman: Lynn Genesis Garrett

~Toby~

Driver: Madeleine Ebba Lager

Fireman: Gillis Liam Lager

~Duck~

Driver: Kennedy Angus Randell

Fireman: Piers Irvine Bissette

~Donald and Douglas~

Driver: Eric Scott McLauchan

Fireman: Graham Colin McLauchan

~Oliver and Toad~

Driver: Jefferson Joseph Jordan

Fireman: Wilton Lynn Spalding

~Emily~

Driver: Essence Joyce Hoker

Fireman: Stella Jaki Elwyn

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2023 In Memoriam Part 30

Dan Morrison, 75

Bishop Paul Darmanin, 82

Roy Harrisville II, 101

Johnny Lujack; Jr., 98

Chief Earl Buford, 81

Bo Goldman, 90

Joe Kowal, 67

Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts, 59

Archbishop Geraldo Lyrio Rocha, 81

Randy Meiser, 77

Henry Logan, 77

Wayne Maxner, 80

François Castaing, 78

Mike Giddings, 89

Harland Carl, 91

Timo Hirvonen, 49

Eddie Long, 91

George Wilson, 81

Marc Gilpin, 56

Ken Suarez, 80

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you mentioned in one of your posts about titanic (maybe?) something to do with the philosophy of lifeboats and idk why but the idea of it has been stuck in my mind for at least a week now and i only just refound the post today. could you pls explain what you meant by it?

hello anon, you must have seen my post nitpicking how j bruce ismays character was handled in the titanic movie when i very briefly mentioned the philosophy of lifeboats thing because I Was Being Petty lmao

but yeah so this is gonna be a dumb-downed explanation about a topic thats fairly complex. also im just not gonna get into the debacle of liferafts because im gonna try and keep it simple.

[edit: i have very much failed at keeping it short or simple so if you are interested, come join me after the cut]

see, its only really been within the last century or so that weve regarded lifeboats as things you can escape a sinking ship on and remain within until rescue arrives.

which sounds kinda insane when thinking about it from a modern point of view, right? like in regards to modern sinking incidents or disasters at sea like say the ms achille lauro, msc napoli, ms estonia or even the ss henry steinbrenner to go back to 1953, the story of the rescue is the passengers board the lifeboats, get a safe distance away from the sinking ship and wait for rescue. and nowadays, if this occurs to you, your chance of survival is fairly high.

so its understandable for people to initially be confused as to why this is a modern school of thought as it seems very logical and is what the namesake implies. and for that, we have to put this into the context of the developments within lifeboat technology.

and im aware of how pretentious that sounds, but its a very important part of this discussion.

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to start, im unfortunately going to have use the titanic as an example because its the only point of reference for most people.

when we look back at the titanic today, we can very easily criticise white star line and harland & wolff simply for not including enough lifeboats on board. and while those are not undue criticisms, they are unduly harsh.

yes, it is ridiculous to not have enough lifeboats on board for all passengers, but back in the 1910s, naval architects found it ridiculous to suggest ships should have that many.

because this is what titanics lifeboats looked like:

compared to modern day lifeboats:

now, you might notice just how different these are: modern day lifeboats tend to be enclosed; they are made of sturdier material; theyre much more buoyant; they have radios on board; are at significantly less risk of capsizing; are legally mandated to come with a sea anchor that can be used to steady your boat; and often can operate under their own power.

also, your ship probably had an epirb (emergency position-indicating radio beacon) or something similar that sent out an automatic distress signal if you werent able to do so yourself.

modern lifeboats can withstand the tumultuous nature of the ocean for a, relatively speaking, very long time and that allows for rescue. thats why people are sometimes rescued from a lifeboat several days after a shipwreck and why rescuers can sometimes be conservative in their rescue, such as waiting for the weather to clear up before approaching.

if youre nearer the equator, you could likely survive weeks within a lifeboat if rescuers either couldnt find you or couldnt reach you.

but thats not always been the case.

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for a long time, lifeboats were these tiny, rickety, wooden boats (as seen in those photos above) that were easily capsized or sank if they came into contact with even the smallest of waves.

if you needed to sail further from the sinking ship or toward land, you would have to do it with wooden paddles and depending on the state of rescue, you might not even have them. your methods of communication were a limited number of flares where you couldnt be sure theyd even work, rocket flares that again night not even work, a torch, a whistle, or just shouting which rarely ever helped.

so even if you could evacuate safely onto a lifeboat, there was no guarantee that youd be able to signal down another ship or potentially an aircraft.

if you werent able to send out a distress signal or were just on a ship that didnt have the technology to do so, no one would know you were in trouble for hours, if you were lucky. for some, it took days or even weeks.

at approximately 2:15am on the 30 november 1966, the ss daniel j morrell broke in half on lake huron. she was not reported missing for ten hours, after which the coast guard dispatched search and rescue vessels. among the 29 crew aboard, only 1 man survived: dennis hale. he was rescued after nearly 14 hours in a liferaft wherein a further 3 men had passed while waiting for rescue. during those 14 hours, the liferaft had been capsized multiple times sending the few survivors into the freezing waters over and over again. [x]

or for an even more extreme example, take the ss naronic. she set sail on 11th february 1893 from liverpool; she was expected to arrive in new york around the 21st february. she never did arrive, and as this was 5 years before the marconi wireless set would be available on ships, the crew could not put out a distress signal. as the ocean was experiencing bad storms, there was no worry about the ship to begin with as it was presumed she was delayed. it took until the 13 march before any alarms were raised. by then, 74 lives had been lost, and to this day, we dont know anything about why she disappeared. its presumed she sank, but no wreck has been found. while her lifeboats were found, that wasnt the case for survivors. [x]

and even if you were lucky enough to have sent out a distress signal, be relatively safe aboard a lifeboat and have ample methods for communicating, you were still at the mercy of the sea. rescue was coming, but there was no guarantee your lifeboat would stay afloat until it arrived.

it was miraculous that titanics lifeboats were able to stay afloat until the carpathia arrived, and that was only around an hour and a half after the titanic had gone down. because this happened in the north atlantic; any other night, the number of casualties would have been significantly higher because those lifeboats would not have survived in rough seas or a storm.

titanic was the exception to the rule; it was the odd duck. and to exemplify this, lets talk about the clallam, the ss valencia and the ss princess sophia.

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quick warning about these ships: these were very tragic incidents with monumental loss of life. out of the approximately 608 people who were aboard one of the three ships, only 83 people survived.

(the ss princess sophia is a particularly tragic incident and its one that has made me cry multiple times so just a warning with that.)

we'll begin with the clallam which was a steamboat that ran a regular route from tacoma to seattle to port townsend to victoria. she ran into trouble during a storm while on this run on the 8 january 1904, with 92 people aboard.

she began taking on water when the deadlight was smashed by the waves, and the emergency pumps aboard were not working. this meant they had very little chance of saving her from sinking, especially when the water entered the boiler and cut out the power.

at this point, you may think that the best case scenario for survival would be to abandon ship, but that assumption was quickly proven false.

around 3pm, captain george roberts ordered the ships 3 lifeboats lowered. these were mostly filled by women and children, which makes what came next even more tragic. within minutes of the boats being lowered, they capsized in the rough waters.

everyone on board the lifeboats drowned; all 56 people on board.

but the clallam stayed afloat for several more hours. this gave enough time for the steam tug richard holyoke to arrive on scene, and eventually the 36 people remaining on the clallam were rescued.

all children aboard drowned when the lifeboats were lowered because in 1906, lifeboats were just as much death traps as they were lifeboats. [x] [x]

the sinking of the ss valencia is a similar tale. she was a passenger steamer that was briefly filling in the route of the ss city of puebla, which ran the san fran to seattle route, in january of 1906.

on the 20th, she set sail with around 173 people aboard. the captain aboard was unfamiliar with the route and visibility was so low that the crew could not make celestial observations (by using a sextant, for example) to determine where they were. instead, they had to rely on dead reckoning.

while dead reckoning is fairly reliable, is subject to errors like directional drift and cumulative errors are particularly disastrous and can cause tragedies like the honda point disaster. further, its been alleged the captain did not know how dead reckoning works.

this led to the valencia striking a reef on the night of the 22 january. she was less than 100 yards from shore, but the water around her was rough.

6 of the 7 lifeboats were lowered quickly, as had occured on the clallam. 3 of the boats flipped while being lowered, emptying the survivors into the ocean. the 3 that were lowered successfully did not fair better as 2 of them capsized very quickly and the 3rd simply disappeared.

the last lifeboat was the only one that made it to shore. but still, they had to hike for 2½ hours before they could find help.

while various ships responded to valencias distress call, they were not able to get close enough to offer much assistance. the crew of the valencia launched the 2 life rafts aboard in hopes of drifting close enough to another ship to be rescued. this happened for 18 men on one of the rafts as they were rescued by the city of topeka. the second raft drifted ashore and the 4 survivors aboard were rescued by a group of first nations from the island.

soon, the valencia was washed off of the rocks and she sank. those still on board went down with the ship.

of the approximate 173 people on board, 136 of them died during the disaster. similar to the clallam again, every child on board died. [x]

and this brings us into the ss princess sophia which was a canadian passenger liner. she set sail on the 23rd october in 1918 with 343 people on board. in the early hours of the 24th, she ran aground on vanderbilt reef.

though she was able to send out a distress call and a rescue flotilla of boats were able to arrive on scene, the ss princess sophia took all 343 souls aboard with her when she was eventually washed off of the reef and into the ocean.

now, this is when we get into what lifeboats were intended for back then. the evacuation plan would be for the 8 steel lifeboats aboard sophia to be lowered with passengers and crew members aboard, and paddled toward one of the various rescue ships. the passengers would be taken aboard while the crew would paddle back to the sophia where more passengers would come aboard and be ferried to safety.

this is what happened when the rms republic sank in 1909 and what occured with the ss andrea doria in 1956 though in that case, they only had enough lifeboats to rescue everyone once the ss île de france arrived on scene as dorias list meant half her lifeboats could not be lowered.

unfortunately, captain locke never saw a time where he believed this process could occur. there was only a very short break in the storm, but even during those 5 hours, the ocean was rough with high waves.

captain ledbetter captained the uslht cedar, one of the rescue ships, and went on record saying he never saw conditions that would have permitted an evacuation. [x] [x]

these three cases both exemplify the philosophy of lifeboats only a century ago and why we cant simply apply a modern lens to it without missing crucial details.

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now lets quickly detour back to the titanic.

as most people know, there were not enough lifeboats aboard for everyone aboard.

this is one of the nitpicks i have about titanic because the portrayal of it paints a warped picture.

so with everything ive rambled on about in this post, we can see why this decision was made. they only needed enough lifeboats to safely ferry passengers from a sinking ship to rescue.

and it was believed that this was a viable evacuation plan in the case that titanic sank. the route she was sailing was a very busy route that often had at least 5-6 ships nearby that could answer a distress call. this is exactly what happened with the rms republic which i mentioned above.

this belief wasnt unique to the titanic or even the white star line. it was held about every ocean liner sailing as these ships were often able to stay afloat for hours acting as its own giant lifeboat due to safety measures and developments like watertight compartments.

and titanic did stay afloat for over 2 hours as it sank. rms republic took over 24 hours irrc while the ocean liner it collided with, the ss florida, was able to sail to port for rescues. ss andrea doria took 10 hours to sink.

during her sea trials in 1927, the ss malolo collided with a freighter (impact equal to the icebrrg to titanic) and was still able to stay afloat and sail despite being flooded with over 7000 tons of sea water.

this belief was clearly not unfounded.

however, the sinking of the titanic practically shattered it. and from then on, almost all ships had enough lifeboat capacity for every passenger on board as it introduced a new function to lifeboats.

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and this kinda leads us into the somewhat conclusion to this rambling mess that very much could have been shorter and much simpler.

but anyway,

put simply, by philosophy of lifeboats, i mean how the function of a lifeboat evolved alongside developments in technology and maritime disasters.

it seemingly had never occured to naval architects pre-titanic that what occured that night in 1912 was a hypothetical they needed to consider.

lifeboats are still used today to ferry survivors to safety if that is what the situation necessitates, but they are now also designed to function as their namesake implies.

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Doing Business Different

This curated group of books was inspired directly by the ending of the first book on the list, Duchess by Design. I was so blown away by that ending that it redefined in my mind how much I could expect from romance, particularly historicals, in terms of female agency, questioning the patriarchy in a much more stringently patriarchal time, and book business owners. Please enjoy the other two books on this list as well, of business owners striving to make a difference one way or another through their profession.

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Duchess by Design by Maya Rodale. Adeline Black, a broke aspiring dressmaker in Gilded Age NYC, accidentally knocks the broke English Duke of Kingston off his course. Kingston has arrived in NYC to woo an American heiress to save his crumbling dukedom and his mother and sister, but after becoming instantly obsessed with Adeline, she teaches him that perhaps there’s a third option other than a loveless marriage to a wealthy woman and complete financial ruin. A fun twist on dukes in historical romance, where he has to learn feminism and hard work rather than being simply a savior of a downtrodden hot lady.

This book has stuck with me ever since I read it. It didn’t end at all where I expected it to, and up until the final few chapters I was convinced there was no way she could get us back to a happily ever after. There’s just too many obstacles, practical and otherwise! And yet. And yet!! I love Adeline and I love that her big thing is pockets in dresses. 

Rating: 4.5/5

How hot? 🔥🔥🔥

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The Hellion and The Hero by Emily Sullivan. Lady Georgiana Arlington has lived her entire life for others, even agreeing to a loveless marriage to save her father and her family. But now she’s widowed and ready to rumble, starting with the business she inherited from her late husband that she intends to make a haven for laborers, particularly female ones, making her a target for the other business owners in the area who don’t appreciate having to offer competitive wages, benefits, and treatment now.

When the target on her back starts to get more threatening, her brother hires someone to look into it and keep an eye on her: Captain Henry Harris, PI, war hero, and the one who got away years and years ago when Georgiana was a debutant and he was a penniless fortune hunter. He’s still smarting from her choosing someone else (though he doesn’t know why), and she’s got her own baggage from before, but together, they’re pretty much unstoppable.

Rating: 4.5/5

How hot? 🔥🔥🔥🔥

How The Duke Was Won by Lenora Bell. James, unexpected Duke of Harland, thought he was safe from ducal responsibility as the second son. But when his father and perfect older brother perish from a carriage accident, he’s dragged back from his travels and adventures to take his rightful palace in the peerage and is in need of a wife. Because he can’t be bothered to care about much of this, as he’s accustomed to his freedom and is working to establish a cocoa manufacturing plant that doesn’t rely on slave labor or exploiting workers that can give chocolate to people of all classes, he selects a series of debutants at random to come to his estate and compete for his hand.

Charlene is the illegitimate daughter of an earl and a courtesan, who bears a striking resemblance to her half sister, the earl’s acknowledged daughter Lady Dorothea. When James invites Dorothea to his estate for the Marriage Games, she’s unfortunately out of town, so the earl’s wife convinces Charlene (whose mother and sister are in danger from a very bad man) to pretend to be Dorthea to secure the duke’s hand in exchange for a healthy payout. In dire straights, Charlene agrees, even though she’s far from duchess material. Luckily, James is far from duke material, so as you might expect, it’s a match made in heaven, despite much of their courtship happening with Charlene pretending to be someone else.

Every part of these shenanigans did it for me. I love that Charlene knows self defense and kinda kicks James’s ass upon first meeting (he’s pretending to be a servant to test the way the debutants treat their staff, then he comes on to her and she does not react demurely). I love that James cares so much about the family he’s built in spite of the family he came from. I love how Charlene can’t help but be herself despite all she has riding on this deal, and how instantly James fights by her side despite her deception. All of this book is great. 

Rating: 4.5/5

How hot? 🔥🔥🔥🔥