Smuggling & Dark Historyさんのイラストまとめ

As #StormBarra approaches Batten Down the Hatches, in bad weather sailing ships would ensure open cargo holds where covered in canvas to keep out storm water, these canvas covers where kept in place by nailed down long wooden strips called battens. Hence Batten down the Hatches!

William Turner painting, Fishing boats caught in Storm.

A wild night of storms here in #Waterford. In times of bad weather ships would stretch canvas over their open holds to keep water out. Long strips of wood would be nailed around hatch to keep it closed. These strips of wood were known as battens. Hence batten down the hatches.

Ships in Distress in a Storm by Peter Monamy which hangs in the Tate Gallery. #stormjustine.

For the day that's in it, a William Sandler painting "Shipping offshore with a storm approaching"

A Charles Brooking painting, The privateer Boscawen engaging a French fleet in 1745. The Boscawen with the aid of another privateer the Sheerness engaged 8 French ships, capturing 5.

3 years on twitter today!! Thanks for all the interest. The image is a 1793 painting by George Morland simply entitled Smugglers. One of my favourite smuggling images.

On this day in 1628 the King of Sweden ordered his new flagship the Vasa to set sail. The Vasa sailed a couple of hundred metres and sank. The ship carried to many cannon on upper decks and was top heavy.

Capture of Luke Ryan. April 1781 Ryan sailing as an American privateer, Ryan takes over 100 ships however his luck runs out when he mistakes the 74 gun Berwick and the 36 gun Belle Poule for whalers. After a hour of broadsides Ryan surrenders. He would be tried as a pirate.

The Escaping Smuggler a painting by Montague Dawson. The painting depicts a Revenue cruiser engaging a smuggler.