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Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project, ye olde shippe #seafever
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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 lost count+1/365
https://t.co/AOzUvlPSgd

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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 279/365 🐬🐬🐬https://t.co/lUMOdHDGG7

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*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 🌊 222/365

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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 194/365

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Congratulations to Essay Prize Winner 2022 Hannah Kaemmer (Harvard) for '“Greatness,” Ancient Ruin: Writing Ottoman Architecture in England, 1580-1680'
https://t.co/MWtmhMZx7m
Might you be our 2023 winner? For details of how to enter see https://t.co/6icAQxJApY

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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 183/365 💰🏴‍☠️⚓️

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'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 144/365

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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 ... 🪶 134/365 https://t.co/YK03IPTlHZ

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Münster, South America labeled in German, geographic features in Latin, from Cosmographei, 1550 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

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