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'Thirty days out', the clipper Dawpool, by English Marine Artist Henry Scott

#tallships #maritime

One of the propellers from the liner SS United States

#Maritime #liners

Action between French frigate Canonnière (40), commanded by Cptn Bourayne, against the Royal Navy’s Tremedous (74) and Hindostan (50). A good example of how an out-gunned ship can use its speed and manoeuvrability to avoid defeat. Painting by PJ Gilbert

#RoyalNavy #FrenchNavy

"Heavy Weather", by Marine Artist Christopher Blossom
#Maritime #tallships

The Distant Ocean – Bk 5 in the #AlexanderClay series

..between the hulls was a corridor of fire, with tongues of flame darting backwards and forwards. Above the deep roar of the guns came the lighter bang of muskets as the marines fired at any shadow they could see in the fog

The Distant Ocean – Book 5 in the Clay series – Coming soon

“A series of sharp cracks sounded overhead, like a volley of muskets, as the shrouds holding the mast snapped under the strain. Ropes whipped and hissed through the air..."

«The 'Cutty Sark' off Shanghai» by the German Artist Gerhard Geidel

Waiting for the first of that year’s tea crop and the race home.

#CuttySark #Tallships

On This Day, 1718 – The notorious career of the pirate Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, ended in a bloody battle off North Carolina’s Outer Banks when a British naval force sent from Virginia ran him to ground.

#Pirates #OTD #RoyalNavy

Single-ship actions were some of the age of sail’s most savage fights, few more so than one fought off the Gironde estuary in December 1798. Find out what happened in my blog this week
https://t.co/q5gDFrwd7A

#FrenchNavy #RoyalNavy

"The Rendezvous", by British marine artist Geoffrey Huband

There is a story waiting to emerge from this canvas...

#RoyalNavy #Nautical