#william john huggins

[ltwilliammowett]

The Opening of St. Katherine's Dock, 25th October 1828, by William John Huggins (1781 –1845)

[deliciousdelinquent]

oh. zepp tours motif is wind and dust/ashes in a empty world like timoris's talk about the lack of wind and dust in a world where time has stopped in ave mujica's 1st live.

the secondary motif is related to zodiacal light which is diffused sunlight reflecting off interplanetary dust.

& the rings are the ecliptic plane.

it's also on tomori's bag for the wego collab, plus some other recent things like the autumn classic fair tomori acrylic stand/keychain & the comiket 103 mygo goods.

polaris, the north star is the central symbol of mygo. the ring surrounding the mygo logo also works to convey a compass.

"Because Polaris lies nearly in a direct line with the Earth's rotational axis "above" the North Pole—the north celestial pole—Polaris stands almost motionless in the sky, and all the stars of the northern sky appear to rotate around it. Therefore, it makes an excellent fixed point from which to draw measurements for celestial navigation and for astrometry. The elevation of the star above the horizon gives the approximate latitude of the observer."

sirius is the brightest star visible from earth. sirius is also called the morning star because it appears in the sky just before sunrise from early july to mid-september.

"The brightest star seen from Earth, Sirius is recorded in some of the earliest astronomical records. Its displacement from the ecliptic causes its heliacal rising to be remarkably regular compared to other stars."

"Sirius appears bright because of its intrinsic luminosity and its proximity to the Solar System. At a distance of 2.64 parsecs, the Sirius system is one of Earth's nearest neighbours. Sirius is gradually moving closer to the Solar System; it is expected to increase in brightness slightly over the next 60,000 years to reach a peak magnitude of −1.68. Coincidentally, at about the same time, Sirius will take its turn as the southern Pole Star, around the year 66,270 AD. In that year, Sirius will come to within 1.6 degrees of the south celestial pole."

"After that time, its distance will begin to increase, and it will become fainter, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's night sky for approximately the next 210,000 years, at which point Vega, another A-type star that is intrinsically more luminous than Sirius, becomes the brightest star."

"Sirius A is about twice as massive as the Sun and has an absolute visual magnitude of +1.43. It is 25 times as luminous as the Sun"

vega is one of the stars making up the summer triangle, that also includes altair, & deneb.

"At present the pole star is Polaris, but around 12,000 BCE the pole was pointed only five degrees away from Vega. Through precession, the pole will again pass near Vega around 14,000 CE. Vega is the brightest of the successive northern pole stars."

"Astrophotography, the photography of celestial objects, began in 1840 when John William Draper took an image of the Moon using the daguerreotype process. On 17 July 1850, Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed,"

"In August 1872, Henry Draper took a photograph of Vega's spectrum, the first photograph of a star's spectrum showing absorption lines. Similar lines had already been identified in the spectrum of the Sun. In 1879, William Huggins used photographs of the spectra of Vega and similar stars to identify a set of twelve "very strong lines" that were common to this stellar category. These were later identified as lines from the Hydrogen Balmer series. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified."

"The distance to Vega can be determined by measuring its parallax shift against the background stars as the Earth orbits the Sun."

this all connects back to the beat of the stars felt by kasumi that already seems to connect to uika/sakiko, as well as the poppin' party song star beat.

many of mygo's motifs are already inspired by star beat's cd insert art, along with various other motifs used by popipa from around the time of the first season of the anime.

mygo's 'a small moment' live already used the motif of zodiacal light.

in the interlude sakiko's footsteps are marked with stars, and the empty spotlight represents the place sakiko used to occupy.

is the rotation path on the ecliptic plane an additional meaning to mygo's compass imagery?

the missing piece of avemuji's gear is the sun, the moon is forced to orbit the sun & earth due to tidal locking but cosmic dust & stars aren't necessary tied to a set ecliptic path.

both gears and compass move in a set direction so to be lost/stop moving is to be removed/break your ties with the path set out for you.

because of tidal locking the dark side of the moon exists preventing it from ever being seen from all sides from earth. the lunar lacus oblivionis is the only one of ave mujica's on the far side where it can't be perceived.

moonlight is a reflection of sunlight so what does it mean for ave mujica after perdere omnia, to create their own moonlight?

[even-in-arcadia]

Chapter 56, Some Less Erroneous and Also Some True Pictures of Whales

Now that we're all on board with what whales don't look like, it's time to learn about what they DO look like and who hasn't failed at showing us! I will once again put most of the art under the cut; but I think one of the most interesting things that these two chapters show us are

how bad 19th century artists and scientists were at depicting whales - and in compiling this post I saw so many terrible whale drawings Ishmael didn't even call out. Ishmael was right you guys, the whale art scene was absolute chaos back then

most of the art ishmael calls out as "monstrous" is of whales themselves, depicted in either a mythic or scientific perspective. however *all* of the depictions he deems "less erroneous" are actually not of whales of but of whaling which feels like a crucial distinction. Part of it is because none of these whales are depicted in whole, which gets back to Ishmael's contention that it is not actually possible to accurately portray them on paper. Only individual pieces can be correct, but by viewing them together you get an idea of the whole. But it's also that he says flat out that the only reliable source is in fact a whaler; and so necessarily the accurate depictions are of whales already dead or engaged with whaling ships.

Anyway! Just some prefacing thoughts for you. Now on to some less erroneous whales:

William John Huggins

2. Thomas Beale, The Natural History of the Sperm Whale (BEST)

3. William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions

Personally I think that calling this an accurate depiction is as hilarious as the empty boat flipped upside down in the air but I'm no whaler, what do I know

4. French Engravings (Peche du Cachalot) by Frederic Martens after Garneray

5. J H Durand-Brager, Balienier Francaise en Peche - The best versions of this I could find were in a German pdf (linked); I think these are what Ishmael was referring to.

Now if you're looking at these going "I don't see any whales???". . . . well, here they are. I feel like they're mostly less erroneous by virtue of being tiny.

Also it's important to me that you know that in my quest to find high quality versions of these, I found a site which claimed the painting on the left was called "Bringing In The Whale Whilst Others Look On Enviously" and while I don't know if that's correct (I don't think it is) it's a bitchin title and I will hold it as accurate in my heart.

And there you have it! Now we know what Whales Actually Look Like

[badsweetangel]

Character List

Hi, I'm a multifandom blog. I write about these characters, so send me requests if you want, I never get bored lol. Anyway, if there's a character I didn't put you can ask, because I can't remember all of them right now.

Any character from Tokyo Revengers

Death note (Mello, L, Near, Matt and Light if you request it)

Rick and Morty (Rick Sanchez, Evil Morty)

Slashers (Michael Myers, Charles Lee Ray (Chucky), Billy Loomis, Stu Macher, Jason Voorhees, William Schenk)

Any creepypasta

Heathers (Jason Dean)

Willy Wonka (Both the Depp and Timothée versions)

Sherlock BBC (Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, John Watson and James Moriarty)

Dragon Ball (Android 17)

It (Henry bowers, Patrick Hockstetter, Victor Criss and Belch Huggins)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.14

Beer Birthdays

Eugene L. Husting (1848)

Brandon Hernández (1976)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Halle Berry; actor (1968)

Mila Kunis; Ukrainian-American actor (1983)

Gary Larson; cartoonist (1950)

Steve Martin; comedian, actor, writer, banjo player (1945)

Bruce Thomas; English bass player (1948)

Famous Birthdays

Russell Baker; essayist (1925)

Emmanuelle Béart; French actress (1963)

Catherine Bell; actor (1968)

Herman Branson; African-American physicist, chemist (1914)

Sarah Brightman; English singer-songwriter (1960)

John Brodie; San Francisco 49ers QB (1935)

Lodewijk Bruckman; Dutch painter (1903)

Sharon Bryant; R&B singer (1956)

Kevin Cadogan; rock singer-songwriter, guitarist (1970)

Méric Casaubon; Swiss-English author (1599)

Yannoulis Chalepas; Greek sculptor (1851)

Darrell "Dash" Crofts; singer-songwriter and musician (1940)

David Crosby; rock singer (1941)

Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin; Belgian mathematician (1866)

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky; Russian-Lithuanian-American artist (1875)

Slim Dunlap; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1951)

Tracy Caldwell Dyson; chemist and astronaut (!969)

Richard R. Ernst; Swiss chemist (1933)

Erica Flapan; mathematician (1956)

Francis Ford; actor and director (1881)

John Galsworthy; English writer (1867)

Alice Ghostley; actor (1926)

Larry Graham; soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter (1946)

Buddy Greco; singer, pianist (1926)

Marcia Gay Harden; actor (1959)

Jackée Harry; actress (1956)

Robert Hayman; English-Canadian poet (1575)

Lee Hoffman; author (1932)

Leopold Hofmann; Austrian composer (1738)

Doc Holliday; dentist, wild west gambler (1851)

James Horner; composer (1953)

Ernest Everett Just; African-American biologist (1883)

Jan Koetsier; Dutch composer (1911)

Margaret Lindsay Huggins; Anglo-Irish astronomer (1848)

William Hutchinson; founder of Rhode Island (1586)

Magic Johnson; Los Angeles Lakers (1959)

Stanley A. McChrystal; American general (1954)

John McCutcheon; folksinger (1952)

Paddy McGuinness; English comedian (1973)

Lionel Morton; English singer-songwriter, guitarist (1942)

Bruce Nash; film director (1947)

Frank Oppenheimer; particle physicist (1912)

Hans Christian Ørsted; Danish physicist and chemist (1777)

Susan Saint James; actor (1946)

Paolo Sarpi; Italian writer (1552)

Ben Sidran; jazz and rock keyboardist (1943)

Stuff Smith; violinist (1909)

Danielle Steel; writer (1947)

Jiro Taniguchi; Japanese author and illustrator (1947)

Bruno Tesch; German chemist (1890)

Ernest Thayer; "Casey at the Bat" writer (1863)

Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Flemish painter (1502)

Carle Vernet; French painter and lithographer (1758)

Claude Joseph Vernet; French painter (1714)

Earl Weaver; Baltimore Orioles manager (1930)

Wim Wenders; German film director (1945)

Lina Wertmüller; Italian film director (1926)

[xenogendersgalore]

Blog Introduction!

Hello lil ghouls! We’ve finally decided to try and write fics for the fun of it. This specific post will include;

Alter Introductions

Characters we write for

Taken anons (will change over time once we get more anons)

Rules / DNI stuff

01; Alter Introductions!

So since we are a pretty big system, there will be different alters to write different fics. That means there will be some changes in how people write. Here’s a lil introduction of the alters who will probably write on here! (We are a DID system)

Skully | Ageless | They / Xe / She / It / Static | Signs off with; - 🎞️

(Is most likely to proof read since they don’t like spelling errors / Tends to take longer while writing fics since xe is very precise / the one most likely to be writing a lot of the fics)

Jules | Ageless | It / She / They / He | Signs off with it’s name

(Adores writing for the slasher flicks / tends to forget to proof read so there may be a couple spelling mistakes / tends to write Headcanons more than full on fics)

Characters we write for!

Slashers!

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

- Bubba Sawyer

- Drayton Sawyer

- Nubbins Sawyer

- Chop Top Sawyer

- Thomas Hewitt

- Sheriff Hoyt

Halloween

- RZ Michael

- Michael in general

Bowers Gang - It

- Patrick Hocksetter

- Belch Huggins

- Henry Bowers

- Victor “Vic” Criss

House Of Wax

- Bo Sinclair

- Vincent Sinclair

- Lester Sinclair

The Lost Boys

- Marko

- Dwayne

- David

- Paul

- Michael Emerson

Scream

- Billy Loomis

- Stu Macher

- Randy Meeks

Sometimes They Come Back

- Richard Lawson

- Vinnie Vincent

- David North

Misc Horror Characters

- Billy Lenz / Black Christmas

- Brahms Heelshire / The Boy

- Chromeskull / Laid To Rest

- Asa Emory / The Collector

- Norman Bates / Psycho

- Jack Torrance / The Shining

- Doomhead / 31

- Rusty Nail / Joyride

- Harry Warden / My Bloody Valentine

- Jason Voorhees / Friday The 13th

- Jeepers Creepers

- Hush “The Man”

Slenderverse!

Creepypasta

- Jeff The Killer

- Ben Drowned

- Eyeless Jack

- Homicidal Liu

- Ticci Toby

- Jason The Toymaker

- Laughing Jack

- Glitchy Red

- Lost Silver

- Bloody Painter

- X - Virus

Marble Hornets

- Tim

- Brian

- Jay

- Alex

- Masky

- Hoody

- Skully

EverymanHYBRID

- Evan

- Jeff

- Vincent

- Habit

TribeTwelve (We Don’t Support Adam Rosner!!)

- The Observer

- Firebrand

- Noah Maxwell

Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2!

- John “Soap” MacTavish

- Captain Price

- Simon “Ghost” Riley

- Kyle "Gaz" Garrick

- Gary "Roach" Sanderson

- Phillip Graves

- König

- Kim “Horangi” Hong-jin

Metalocalypse

- Nathan Explosion

- Toki Wartooth

- Skwisgaar Skwigelf

- Pickles

- William Murderface

- Charles Foster Offdensen

Taken Anons!

None currently but will be listed if we get some!

Rules / DNI Stuff!

DNI Stuff!

- System Fakeclaimers!

- Homophobes

- Basic DNI criteria’s

- Haters In General

Rules!

- Only send requests to ask box plz! (We won’t get upset if you slip up tho)

- No heavy gore

- No NSFW things

- No suicide, racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, zoophilic type stuff, pedo stuff, grooming, anything like that, no smut at all!!

Blog will be updated if there are new characters we like!

[ulkaralakbarova]

Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Beverly Sutphin: Kathleen Turner Eugene Sutphin: Sam Waterston Misty Sutphin: Ricki Lake Chip Sutphin: Matthew Lillard Detective Pike: Scott Morgan Detective Gracey: Walt MacPherson Scotty: Justin Whalin Birdie: Patricia Dunnock Carl: Lonnie Horsey Dottie Hinkle: Mink Stole Rosemary Ackerman: Mary Jo Catlett Mr. Stubbins: John Badila Betty Sterner: Kathy Fannon Ralph Sterner: Doug Roberts Carl’s Date: Traci Lords Marvin Pickles: Tim Caggiano Howell Hawkins: Jeff Mandon Father Boyce: Colgate Salsbury Mrs. Jenson: Patsy Grady Abrams Herbie Hebden: Richard Pilcher Timothy Nazlerod: Beau James Judge: Stan Brandorff Luann Hodges: Kim Swann Suzanne Somers: Suzanne Somers Gus: Bus Howard Sloppy: Alan J. Wendl Juror #8: Patricia Hearst Jury Forewoman: Nancy Robinette Rookie Cop: Peter Bucossi Policewoman: Loretto McNally Press A: Wilfred E. Williams Court TV Reporter: Joshua L. Shoemaker Court Groupie A: Rosemary Knower Court Groupie B: Susan Lowe Carl’s Brother: John Calvin Doyle Book Buyer: Mary Vivian Pearce Mean Lady: Brigid Berlin Police Officer: Jordan Brown Vendor: Anthony ‘Chip’ Brienza Flea Market Boy: Jeffrey Pratt Gordon Flea Market Girl: Shelbi Clarke Macho Man: Nat Benchley Dealer: Kyf Brewer Baby’s Mother: Teresa R. Pete Church Baby: Zachary S. Pete Doorman: Richard Pelzman Kid A: Chad Bankerd Kid B: Johnny Alonso Kid C: Robert Roser Joe Flowers: Mike Offenheiser Girl: Lee Hunsaker Burglar A: Michael S. Walter Burglar B: Mojo Gentry Mrs. Taplotter: Gwendolyn Briley-Strand Reporter: Jennifer Mendenhall Joan Rivers: Joan Rivers TV Serial Hag: Catherine Anne Hayes Lady C: Susan Duvall Press: Valerie Yarborough Kid: Jordan Young Camel Lips: Jennifer Finch Camel Lips: Suzi Gardner Camel Lips: Demetra Plakas Camel Lips: Donita Sparks Husband A: John A. Schneider Court Clerk: Lyrica Montague Eugene Sutphin’s Nurse (uncredited): Bess Armstrong Birdie’s Father (uncredited): Greg Coale Video Store Customer (uncredited): David L. Marston Stage Diver (uncredited): Kim McGuire Cop (uncredited): John Poague Club Kid (uncredited): Al Sotto Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited): John Waters Film Crew: Art Direction: David J. Bomba Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Berger Executive Producer: Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr. Thanks: Paul Reubens Original Music Composer: Basil Poledouris Writer: John Waters Production Design: Vincent Peranio Editor: Janice Hampton Producer: Mark Tarlov Supervising Sound Editor: John Nutt Thanks: Don Knotts Editor: Erica Huggins Director of Photography: Robert M. Stevens Associate Producer: Pat Moran Costume Design: Van Smith First Assistant Director: Robert Rooy Property Master: Brook Yeaton Art Department Production Assistant: Jeffrey Pratt Gordon Carpenter: Thomas Turnbull Thanks: Harry H. Novak Set Decoration: Susan Kessel On Set Dresser: Lianne Williamson Sound Editor: Ernie Fosselius Thanks: Arthur Machen Utility Stunts: G. A. Aguilar Sound Mixer: Rick Angelella First Assistant Director: Mary Ellen Woods Sound Editor: Frank E. Eulner Casting: Paula Herold Set Dresser: Michael Sabo Second Unit Director: Steve M. Davison Sound Editor: Robert Shoup Hairstylist: Kathryn Blondell Sound Re-Recording Mixer: David Parker Stunt Double: Cheryl Wheeler Duncan Assistant Makeup Artist: Janice Kinigopoulos Makeup Artist: Debi Young Makeup Artist: E. Thomas Case Post Production Supervisor: John Currin Assistant Property Master: R. Vincent Smith Music Supervisor: Bones Howe Draughtsman: Rob Simons Additional Hairstylist: Howard ‘Hep’ Preston Assistant Makeup Artist: Barbara Lacy Art Department Coordinator: Sarah Stollman Utility Stunts: Michael Runyard Unit Production Manager: Margaret Hilliard Hairstylist: Ardis Cohen Assistant Production Design: John Lindsey McCormick Makeup Artist: Betty Beebe Sound Recordist: Philip Rogers Producer: John Fiedler Secon...

[tomorrowedblog]

Friday Releases for January 6

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for January 6 include The Pale Blue Eye, M3GAN, The Rig, and more.

The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye, the new movie from Scott Cooper, is out today.

West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

M3GAN

M3GAN, the new movie from Gerard Johnstone, is out today.

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to.

When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), Gemma’s unsure and unprepared to be a parent. Under intense pressure at work, Gemma decides to pair her M3GAN prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems—a decision that will have unimaginable consequences.

The Old Way

The Old Way, the new movie from Brett Donowho, is out today.

Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage stars in his first-ever Western as Colton Briggs, a cold-blooded gunslinger turned respectable family man. When an outlaw and his gang put Colton and his family in peril, Colton is forced to take up arms with an unlikely partner — his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) — in this action-filled film that builds toward its fateful showdown with pulse-pounding suspense.

Candy Land

Candy Land, the new movie from John Swab, is out today.

Remy, a seemingly naive and devout young woman, finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers, courtesy of her hosts. Under the watchful eye of their matriarch, and an enigmatic local lawman, Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the code to find her true calling in life.

The Rig

The Rig, the new TV series from David Macpherson, is out today.

When the crew of the Kinloch Bravo find themselves cut off from all communication with the Scottish mainland by a mysterious fog, they must fight to find a way home whilst managing environmental pressures, mounting paranoia and rising tensions. But as the threat facing them reveals itself to be something beyond their wildest imagination, the divided crew must form an alliance to ensure survival.

BMF S2

The second season of BMF, the TV series from Randy Huggins, is out today.

Y’all ready to pledge allegiance to the Black Mafia Family?

[marryat92]

Signalling her number

William John Huggins (1781-1845), A Frigate Signalling Her Number Off Ramsgate.

This painting is a current listing on the marine art auction market, brought to my attention by a person who regularly scours auction sites. I can't find any additional information on Bonhams besides the title, and the lifespan of the artist (so we know that this was made in 1845 or earlier).

She flies the Red Ensign, also known as the "Red Duster", of the British merchant navy. The flags at her foremast and mainmast are from Captain Marryat's Code of Signals.

First Distinguishing Pennant: this shows that she is signalling the number of a merchantman. Other distinguishing pennants or flags would be used to express places, bearings, or sentences from Marryat's code. @ussporcupine demonstrated how Marryat's flags were used to send messages in AMC's Franklin expedition TV series, 'The Terror'. Even Royal Navy ships would use Marryat's code—and a Franklin expedition officer posed with a copy of Marryat's signal book, which might explain why the TV series chose to employ it.

So the numerical flags in Huggins' painting are a merchant ship:

This is 4230 or 4239. The last flag is slightly obscured, and I have tried reading it as both a zero or a nine:

If it were a 9, the upper left corner would be blue, not yellow, which is not what the painting appears to show. If it was important enough for the ship's owner to commission this painting, you would think that the artist would take care to show the correct signal flags.

The earliest edition of Marryat's Code of Signals online is from 1847 (Google Books link), which is a potential problem. If this ship was wrecked soon after 1845 (or even earlier, since the painting is undated), the corresponding merchant ship number in the 1847 edition wouldn't be her. But it's the best reference I have, and I looked up merchant ships using the first distinguishing pennant (the second pennant was also used for merchant ships, but that's not ambiguous here):

General Brock? Like Sir Isaac Brock? (The indentation appears to function as a "ditto"). Conveniently on the same page, merchant ship 4239 is General Graham. The list of ships is from Lloyd's Register, a company which is still around today, and they have their historical records online.

The connection between Captain Marryat and his Code of Signals and the powerful Lloyd's Register is not an accidental one. Joseph Marryat Sr., Frederick Marryat's father, happened to be both a Member of Parliament and an important board member at Lloyd's, which didn't go unnoticed at the time the Code of Signals was first published in 1817:

Urged on by his father, Marryat devised his Code of Signals for merchant shipping, which could be employed in parallel with naval signals. It divided into six parts: the first two, lists of warships and merchantmen, each identified by a number; thirdly, signals representing named ports, headlands, channels and reefs; fourth, signals for sentences commonly used at sea; finally a section for vocabulary and another for the alphabet. Published in 1817, it was promoted by Joseph Marryat, through his influence at Lloyd’s, prompting the sour comment from one ship-owner that, ‘When it is considered that Captain Marryat is the son of the chairman of the Committee of Lloyd’s, I am sure the ship-owners and the public will do every justice to the very ingenuous manner in which it has been brought forward.’ But influence, or ‘interest’, as it was known in the Navy, was one of the principal driving-forces of society and was taken for granted. Once the new code had been accepted by Lloyd’s, all its insurance agents, every ship-owner, the master of every merchantman, every pilot, coastguard and excise officer and soon every warship had to have a copy. Its success, both practical and commercial, was assured.

— Tom Pocock, Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer, and Adventurer (2000)

So far, my attempts to cross-reference this ship in Lloyd's Register have yielded confusing results. The 1847 edition, which should match up with the Code of Signals I used, doesn't have a General Brock or General Graham. But both names are in the 1830 edition.

Here General Brock is identified as a brig (Bg), which is a two-masted vessel and can't be the ship in the painting. s.C. means copper sheathed. General Graham is a ship (S), and the most likely candidate at this point. Both vessels are 'SDB' or single deck with beams.

[ltwilliammowett]

Ship of the line - Frigate - East Indiaman

Since I keep mentioning these three here, here is a short explanation. I have already explained Unrated Vessels and you can read about them here.

Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of  warship built from the 17th to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as battle array, in which the two columns of opposing warships manoeuvred to fire with the guns on their broadsides, but it was also important that these ships had several decks.

Ship of the line - HMS Victory 1765 (x)

In conflicts where both ships could fire from the broadside, the one with more guns - and thus more firepower - usually had the advantage. Since these battles were almost invariably won by the heaviest ships with the most powerful cannons, it made sense to build sailing ships that were the largest and strongest of their time.

Frigate

A frigate is a warship that had only one armed deck, while the unarmed deck below was used to house the crew. (There are exceptions here as well, because there were also large frigates with 50 guns).

Frigate - HMS Rose 1757 (x)

In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the term frigate was used to describe any fully rigged ship designed for speed and manoeuvrability and intended to be used for reconnaissance, escort and patrol. The term was loosely applied to ships that differed greatly in design. In the second quarter of the 18th century, the "true frigate" was developed in France. This had two full-length decks. Usually, only the armed decks were counted in warships - so although the frigate had two through decks by design, it only had one armed deck and is thus considered as a one decker.  

At the end of the 19th century (British and French prototypes were built in 1858), armoured frigates were developed as powerful armoured ships, which were given the designation frigate because of their single gun deck. Later developments in the field of armoured ships made the designation frigate superfluous and the term fell into oblivion. It was later resumed, however, and still exists today.

Man O'War - also Man-of-war or Man-of-Warr

Is the term for a warship. Even though ships were considered female, warships were in this sense a Man O' War and not a female of war. Because women don't fight, according to the earlier view. But after the battle, the ship was a proud lady again.

East Indiaman

East Indiaman was a general term for all sailing ships commissioned or licensed by one of the East India trading companies of the great European trading powers of the 17th to 19th centuries. The term is used for ships of the Austrian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese or Swedish companies.

A portrait of the East Indiaman ‘Triton’ (1793) off the coast of China, by William John Huggins, 1839 (x)

They were the largest merchant ships regularly built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and generally had a deadweight capacity of 1100 to 1400 tons (bm). The ships carried both passengers and goods and were armed to defend themselves against pirates. Originally, East Indies ships were built to carry as much cargo as possible, not to sail fast. Later they were based on the plans of ship of the lines and were often a merchant vessel in the guise of a ship of the line to scare off potential attackers.

[marinepaintings]

William John Huggins, The Merchant Vessel Peru off Dover (details), 1841-45

[podsteklom]

Соблазнитель. William John Huggins (1781-1845)

[alineuponthewind]

Topsail schooner “Amy Stockdale” off Dover - William John Huggins

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.14

Beer Birthdays

Eugene L. Husting (1848)

Brandon Hernández (1976)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Emmanuelle Beart; French actor (1965)

Halle Berry; actor (1968)

Mila Kunis; Ukrainian-American actor (1983)

Gary Larson; cartoonist (1950)

Steve Martin; comedian, actor, writer, banjo player (1945)

Famous Birthdays

Russell Baker; essayist (1925)

Emmanuelle Béart; French actress (1963)

Catherine Bell; actor (1968)

Herman Branson; African-American physicist, chemist (1914)

Sarah Brightman; English singer-songwriter (1960)

John Brodie; San Francisco 49ers QB (1935)

Lodewijk Bruckman; Dutch painter (1903)

Sharon Bryant; R&B singer (1956)

Kevin Cadogan; rock singer-songwriter, guitarist (1970)

Méric Casaubon; Swiss-English author (1599)

Yannoulis Chalepas; Greek sculptor (1851)

Darrell "Dash" Crofts; singer-songwriter and musician (1940)

David Crosby; rock singer (1941)

Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin; Belgian mathematician (1866)

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky; Russian-Lithuanian-American artist (1875)

Slim Dunlap; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1951)

Tracy Caldwell Dyson; chemist and astronaut (!969)

Richard R. Ernst; Swiss chemist (1933)

Erica Flapan; mathematician (1956)

Francis Ford; actor and director (1881)

John Galsworthy; English writer (1867)

Alice Ghostley; actor (1926)

Larry Graham; soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter (1946)

Buddy Greco; singer, pianist (1926)

Marcia Gay Harden; actor (1959)

Jackée Harry; actress (1956)

Robert Hayman; English-Canadian poet (1575)

Lee Hoffman; author (1932)

Leopold Hofmann; Austrian composer (1738)

Doc Holliday; dentist, wild west gambler (1851)

James Horner; composer (1953)

Ernest Everett Just; African-American biologist (1883)

Jan Koetsier; Dutch composer (1911)

Margaret Lindsay Huggins; Anglo-Irish astronomer (1848)

William Hutchinson; founder of Rhode Island (1586)

Magic Johnson; Los Angeles Lakers (1959)

Stanley A. McChrystal; American general (1954)

John McCutcheon; folksinger (1952)

Paddy McGuinness; English comedian (1973)

Lionel Morton; English singer-songwriter, guitarist (1942)

Bruce Nash; film director (1947)

Frank Oppenheimer; particle physicist (1912)

Hans Christian Ørsted; Danish physicist and chemist (1777)

Susan Saint James; actor (1946)

Paolo Sarpi; Italian writer (1552)

Ben Sidran; jazz and rock keyboardist (1943)

Stuff Smith; violinist (1909)

Danielle Steel; writer (1947)

Jiro Taniguchi; Japanese author and illustrator (1947)

Bruno Tesch; German chemist (1890)

Ernest Thayer; "Casey at the Bat" writer (1863)

Bruce Thomas; English bass playe (1948)

Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Flemish painter (1502)

Carle Vernet; French painter and lithographer (1758)

Claude Joseph Vernet; French painter (1714)

Earl Weaver; Baltimore Orioles manager (1930)

Wim Wenders; German film director (1945)

Lina Wertmüller; Italian film director (1926)

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William John Huggins (British, 1781 - 1845), The Opium Ships at Lintin, China, 1824.

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William John Huggins (1781–1845) - The East Indiaman 'Victorine' Pursued by the Revenue Cutter 'Prince George'