#wreck of the Pacific

[puutterings]

when the rain came

  They had hardly sat down to table, when the rain came puttering down on the roof, and in a quarter of an hour the storm was as violent, and the thunder and lightning as terrific as on the day before. All the out-door labour was again suspended...

ex Robinson Ready Or the Wreck of the Pacific : Written for young people by Captain Marryat. Für die deutsche Jugend mit belehrenden Noten und einem Wörteruche versehen [provided with instructional notes and dictionary for German youth]. (Leipzig, Baumgärtner’s Buchhandlung, 1844) : 138 : link

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“puttering” for “pattering” in Masterman Ready; or, The Wreck of the Pacific. Written for Young People. By Captain Marryat. vol. 2 (of 3), (London, 1842) : 16 : link (hathitrust)

This 1842 edition contains wood engravings, some marked “DICKES.DEL” (William Dickes, 1850-92), see BM bio : link and (or) “R BRANSTON.SP” (Robert Branston, 1803?-77), BM : link

catalogue record for this edition (Michigan copy) : link

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Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) — wikipedia — authored : a signal code, several editions, the third in 1820 : A Code of signals for the use of Vessels employed in the merchant service; Including a cypher for secret correspondence : link (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek), nautical and children’s fiction, and even (uncertainly) The Floral Telegraph; or Affection’s Signals, By the Late Captain Marryatt [sic], R.N. (London, 1850?) : link

But I digress.  

[yourdeadprince]

soft k-sci guys for the soul 💕 [ an og version from 2018 ]

[cicada-candy]

psst

@wazzappp

✨drippy✨

wanted to try new brushes, Blaming You For The Consequences

[victusinveritas]

This is the wheehouse of the US aircraft carrier Saratoga at Bikini Atoll. The slits are battle covers over the porthole openings. The ship's wheel has rotted away, but everything else was still there when this photo was taken in the early 2000s.

[ienianstories]

Thinking long and hard as finding out you're not drift compatible with someone as analogous to divorce. Such rich ground for agony. The end of everything you've worked towards, the pointlessness of finding out someone who is everything to you is nothing for you, incapable of helping you, unable to protect with you

[lonestarbattleship]

Side-scan sonar mosaic of the USS NEVADA (BB-36) shipwreck site, it was discovered by Pacific Constructor in April 2020. It lays upside down, 4,715 m (15,472 feet) approximately 120 km (km) (65 nautical miles) off Pearl Harbor.

The debris field 1,968 ft (600 m) from the main hull.

Two Inverted turret on the wreck site. The turret sat in the barbette and rotated on the rollers visible in the image

Painted hull number 36 preserved on the side of NEVADA’s stern.

5-inch shell handling room and mount for a dual 5-inch/38 gun

Dual 40-mm mount and tub with toppled Mk 51 gun director

Shell fire damage to the tripod foremast

View aft toward the aft compartment with a watertight bulkhead and hatch, shut for Condition X-Ray. Note the rusticles eating at the metal like the ones on Titanic.

Overturned Crossroads Test Tank from the deck of NEVADA.

source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source

[rainbowintheclouds]

art by me, my bf and @acidscreator

Some art doodles with friends✨ this was a lot more fun than I expected and will 100% be doing this again, so much randomness

Sketchy Sans, Wreck Sans, Spiral Sans, Pacific Sans belongs to me

Acid Sans and Assassin Sans belongs to @acidscreator

Silver Sans, Coy belongs to my bf

[i-love-books-because-reasons]

Horrific: The Empress of Ireland Wreck 1914 | Documentary

[floralovebot]

make 50 posts a day about helia not being a pacifist while directly ignoring his old profile where he straight up says i am a pacifist. it's okay baby girl everyone gets confused sometimes <3

[aryburn-trains]

Derailment of WB Overland Mail Train #21 near Emigrant Gap. Fulda, CA 12/18/1964

[ranseur]

adding mako and raleigh from pacific rim to your list of great m/f platonic pairs!

OHH thank you! yes i love them a lot! i forgot to mention them in my list.

i guess someone could make a case for a romantic future for them, from the time Mako was Gazing Respectfully at Raleigh's abs, but the final scene with the forehead touch and hug was perfect! i'm really glad you mentioned Mako and Raleigh because i LOVE that they didn't go for a kiss

also Pacific Rim... really gave us the gift of 'drift compatibility' as a term for being connected in mind and body without it being necessarily romantic. the other platonic drift compatible teams in that movie are splendid as well, the Striker Eureka father son team, the Crimson Typhoon triplets, and of COURSE Hermann and Newt (another two blorbos i rotate in my mind) speaking of Hermann and Newt, while the m/f platonic pairs are uncommon and very special to me, i will also say I love the m/m and f/f platonic pairs too!

[20th-century-railroading]

No. 12 derailed after a vandal removed a rail at Mile 4. The ACR had to call in 2 hoists from the CPR to help out on the recovery of the 182. Sault Ste Marie, ON 05/29/1980

[razor-ramons-thighs]

Demolition Crush goes up agains his rival Billy Jack Haynes in Portland

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"WRECK SURVIVORS SAY THEY WERE SHABBILY TREATED BY THE C.P.R." Ottawa Journal. June 27, 1913. Page 1. ---- Signed Documents Waiving Further Claims When Bewildered ---- Canny Scot, However Sees a Lawyer Before Signing any Papers --- Sums Paid Vary From $12 to $70-Immigrants Claim These Will not Nearly Reimburse Them for Losses. ---- There is considerable dissatistion among the injured at St. Luke's Hospital who claim that they were shabbily treated by the C. P. R. in the matter of financiel settlement for personal losses sustained in the recent wreck of the Imperial limited.

The discontent is principally centered in the Irish and Scotch immigrants who this morning were bitter in their denunciation against the company.

Beastly Unfair. "It was beastly unfair," was the way one Irishman, Thomse Fitzpatrick expressed himself. "We had no one to advise us at all and I guess we were roped in," he added. "We were in a bewildered condition from the effects of our experiences."

The immigrants claim what they received from the company will not nearly reimburse them for the total loss of their personal effects. All those who received money had to sign statement waiving all claim for future damages.

One Scotchman from Edinburgh, Mr. William Pringle, refused to sign but saw a lawyer on the matter and will likely put in bid for a much higher figure than offered by the company. The amounts paid to those The Journal talked with ranged from $13 to $76. Some have not yet been approached by the company's officials.

Amounts Received. The following were those seen The Journal and the amounts each received: John Boyce, Donegal, Ireland, $70. He was cut about the head and body bruised.

Thomas Fitzpatrick, Cavan, Ireland, asked for $100 but was only given $25. His arms had been twisted.

Frederick McBride, Donegal, Ireland. $12. Back badly strained.

Patrick Neally. Cavan, Ireland, $15.

Patrick Devine, Donegal, Ireland, $70.

George Stuart, Scotland, $50.

Bewildered When Signing. Most of the above are bound for Manitoba and claim while yet bewildered from the effects of their experience.

Getting Along Nicely. All those injured in the wreck are getting along very nicely in the various hospitals. It is now expected that Robt. McNeally, who was most seriously injured, will recover.

Clearing the Wreck. This morning preparations were under way for shifting the two colonist cars still in the river. It is not expected that they will be moved until late this afternoon. The first-class coach was put on trucks and moved to the Britannia siding.

Will Bury Victims. The County Board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will bury all Irish Catholics killed in the C. P. R. wreck and will also amidst the among the injured.

Were Repairing Track. Sun kinks may have caused Wednesday's wreck on the C.P.R., but it is also quite possible that human and not solar agencies were responsible. Superintendent Gilliland of the C. P. R. frankly admitted to The Journal this morning that section men had been at work at that point where the Imperial Limited was thrown, a very short time before the accident. They were laying new ties, he said.

By to-morrow the railway will be in a position to assign an official cause. The investigation is going on all day at the Broad street station, and a large number of witnesses are being examined. Up to now there has been no suspension of any employes of the road.

Those investigating are: A. C. MacKenzie, Engineer of Maintenance of Ways, General Superintendent Hodge, Divisional Engineer F. W. Cooper and Mr. Gilliland.

[gingerwerk]

“Lena, you might hear this all the time but you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen”

“No… I don’t hear that very often”

[zvaigzdelasas]

“Reinforcements will be arriving … to control the areas that have escaped us in recent days, where control is no longer assured,” Le Franc told reporters at a briefing. [...]

In the working-class districts of Nouméa, which have a high population of indigenous Kanak residents, buildings were burned and wrecked vehicles remained in the middle of the road. The official death toll stood at five, with two police officers killed. The three other victims were Kanak, and images of the corpses circulating on social networks have increased the anger of Kanak youth.[...]

The Field Action Co-ordination Cell (CCAT), the group which organised the protest on Monday against the proposed constitutional reform, blamed the French government for the violence.

“Faced with the state’s stubborn determination to impose a change to the constitution, we denounce its irresponsibility and hold it responsible for the loss of human life, the atrocities and the destruction of the country’s economic fabric,” it said in a statement.[...]

A group of independence movements in French territories around the world convened by Azerbaijan issued statements about the riots on Tuesday and Thursday, prompting Darmanin to accuse Baku of “interference”.

Baku swiftly rejected the allegation as “baseless”.

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