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A group of fools piloting the ship of state, breaking the mast & steering towards a cliff ... from Narrenschiff, a broadside satirising powerful people as ignorant & stupid, 1630 ... evergreen image #seafever lost count+1/365
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A female triton holding a bow & a child-triton riding a dolphin ... not sure🐬 is very happy about it ... by Pellegrino Tibaldi, c16 #seafever 279/365 🐬🐬🐬https://t.co/lUMOdHDGG7
*Love* the detail on this! Unidentified departing VIP from Middelburg, 1615; warship De Zeehondt is being towed to sea by 4 BIG draught 🐎 with BIG crowd in tow, Stadtholder Maurice’s yacht present & fires a salute; 🐶🐕🐩leading & cavorting in 🌊 #seafever 222/365 @rijksmuseum
Stirling Castle, 70 gun, 3rd rate, launched 1673; lost on Goodwin Sands in Great Storm, 1703, & items recovered from wreck: ship's furnace, hour glass & deck slate = reusable log to record hourly progress for noting down later in ship's formal log #seafever 194/365 @RMGreenwich
Congratulations to @HakluytSociety Essay Prize Winner 2022 Hannah Kaemmer (Harvard) for '“Greatness,” Ancient Ruin: Writing Ottoman Architecture in England, 1580-1680'
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Might you be our 2023 winner? For details of how to enter see https://t.co/6icAQxJApY
32-gun ship, poss the Nassau, on tankard given to Giles Shelley, who captained the Nassau to Madagascar in 1698, favorite haunt of 🏴☠️Captain Kidd. Shelley returned to New York with a vast amount of 🪙 but was suspected of complicity with Kidd #seafever 183/365 @metmuseum 💰🏴☠️⚓️
Fighting the monster c17 style .... #seafever 178/365 https://t.co/u6UsuqLMrb
'Fairfax' (1653), 'Assurance' (1646), 'Tiger' (1647) & 'Elizabeth' (1647), Isaac Sailmaker?, c1680? ... intriguing picture, since ships' identities/likely date of panting don't match, since Elizabeth sunk in 1667 ... read about it here https://t.co/LVnCyZ7pDj #seafever 144/365
Intrigued by this Ferdinando Bertelli print, c1561-71, entitled 'Catching the goose from a boat' ... look at all those spectators! Not sure of the 'rules' or what happened to the poor bird ... 🪶 #seafever 134/365 https://t.co/YK03IPTlHZ
Münster, South America labeled in German, geographic features in Latin, from Cosmographei, 1550 #seafever 126/365 https://t.co/0UkxkDsCeR
Munster's map of America = earliest 🗺️ to show all of N & S America in a true continental form & shows Magellan's ⛵️ Victoria in Pacific