12 janvier 1920 : En route pour le Sénégal, le paquebot français « Afrique » fait naufrage, tuant 568 de ses 602 passagers dont 192 tirailleurs sénégalais.

Peu médiatisé à cause de l’élection présidentielle, ce naufrage reste la pire catastrophe civile maritime française.

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Kenway the bard, the character i'm playing in a maritime treasure hunting campaign, he's all about keeping the crew's morale high

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His commercial success allowed him to live a life of ease which he documented in ravishing canvases. My Studio Door, Tangier (1920), The Palladian Bridge At Wilton House (1920), Alpes Maritimes (1921) & The Garden, Villa Sylvia (1921)

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A lifeguard and his dog under the moonlight.

Life Saving Patrol (c. 1893) by Edward Moran, an American painter specialized in maritime paintings.

He frequently captured the balance between the power of the ocean and the men who worked on there.

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is a poet & PhD student in York. The first poet-in-residence at Hull’s Maritime Museum, she is asking at what point people and animals become objects. Published in The Looking Glass Anthology and in Black bough Magazine.

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HMS Southampton on the morning of the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916.
Painting by Oscar Parkes.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London (ID: BHC3871)

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APM E-70NF Maritime Patrol Aircraft

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25 décembre 1635
Décès à Québec de Samuel de Champlain. Il était né à Brouage (Charente-Maritime) entre 1567 et 1574. Il est mort sans descendance. Le tombeau du fondateur de Québec et père de la Nouvelle-France reste introuvable, en dépit de multiples efforts pour le retrouver.

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The Battle of The Saints, 12 April 1782, with HMS Formidable engaging the Ville de Paris in the foreground.
Painting by Thomas Luny (1759-1837).
National Maritime Museum (ID: BHC0701)

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🛥⚓️ "Prendre la barre" is a maritime expression, French equivalent of "to take the helm" (=driving a boat). And in French too, it can be used in a figurative way, to mean "leading the operations" or "taking control of the situation". But "barre" can also mean a bar (the shap…

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When Richard Eurich painted 'Flood Water,' during the 1950s, he was recognised as one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists who had made a name for himself through his highly detailed maritime scenes made during the Second World War.

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"Aragon Suite" by Marc Chagall, circa 1976, is a hand colored Aquitent Etching, size 29 x 24.4 inches. Retails for $12,000.
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Born: July 7, 1887
Vitebsk, Russia
Died: March 28, 1985
Maritimes, France
Russian painter and artist

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One of the very first Avis Maritima Stulta pages I made, Christmas 2008.
An oldie, but a goodie.

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I like how most game companies forget Canada exists, and yet the big bad enemy Nazi leader from Metal Slug is in fact from New Brunswick. Yeah, living in the Maritimes at winter would make me commit war crimes.

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The Artist (SOLD ARCHIVES)

THOMAS LUNY
(1759 - 1837)
Engagement Between Sir George Brydges Rodney and the Spanish Squadron, Commanded by Don Juan de Langara, Near Cape St. Vincent 1782

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Alpes-Maritimes : Un poulpe entraîne un goéland vers le fond et la scène est capturée en vidéo https://t.co/IZCje34Deb

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René Guiette (1893 - 1976) Maritime scene, 1927

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RT : A small but savage epic of courage occurred in 1811 when a small British trader, the Fortune, was attacked by a larger French privateer, her crew outnumbered six to one. But she did not surrender ... https://t.co/dNTnCgabg5

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