Enlist in the WAVES print $15.00 “On the same team. Enlist in the WAVES.  Apply to your nearest Navy recruiting station or office of Naval Officer Recruitment” Naval recruiting poster during WWII, circa 1940s. on Vintagraph

Enlist in the WAVES print $15.00

“On the same team. Enlist in the WAVES.  Apply to your nearest Navy recruiting station or office of Naval Officer Recruitment”

Naval recruiting poster during WWII, circa 1940s.

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Maritime Monday for March 18th, 2013:Catholics Need Not Apply On the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and six We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks For the grand city hall in New York ‘Twas a wonderful craft, she was rigged fore-and-aft And oh, how the wild winds drove her. She’d got several blasts, she’d twenty-seven masts And we called her the Irish Rover. We had one million bales of the best Sligo rags We had two million barrels of stones We had three million sides of old blind horses hides, We had four million barrels of bones. We had five million hogs, we had six million dogs, Seven million barrels of porter. We had eight million bails of old nanny goats’ tails, In the hold of the Irish Rover… “The Irish Rover” is an Irish folk song about a magnificent, though improbable, sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end. This week: Irish Shipping

Maritime Monday for March 18th, 2013:
Catholics Need Not Apply

On the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and six
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the grand city hall in New York
‘Twas a wonderful craft, she was rigged fore-and-aft
And oh, how the wild winds drove her.
She’d got several blasts, she’d twenty-seven masts
And we called her the Irish Rover.

We had one million bales of the best Sligo rags
We had two million barrels of stones
We had three million sides of old blind horses hides,
We had four million barrels of bones.
We had five million hogs, we had six million dogs,
Seven million barrels of porter.
We had eight million bails of old nanny goats’ tails,
In the hold of the Irish Rover…

“The Irish Rover” is an Irish folk song about a magnificent, though improbable, sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end.

This week: Irish Shipping

Yachts racing past the Kish light vessel off Dublin BayOil on canvas; signed and dated, “SAMUEL WALTERS 1848” 1811–1882 (born at sea) — (big fat huge LOOKY) The Kish light vessel (replaced by a lighthouse in 1965) denoted the northern end of a series of dangerous sandbanks running parallel to the Irish coast. Lying about four miles offshore and extending from Dublin down to Wexford, they were responsible for the loss of many ships. The Kish was a familiar mark of the course for the offshore regattas organised by yacht clubs based at Dun Leary (Dun Laoghaire), the commodious sheltered harbour serving Dublin. Walters depicts a typical large cutter of the period apparently ahead of two similar craft, although in fact they are well placed up wind of the leader. Should the next leg of the course involve tacking around the light ship, the present windward yacht might well prove the winner. more

Yachts racing past the Kish light vessel off Dublin Bay
Oil on canvas; signed and dated, “SAMUEL WALTERS 1848”
1811–1882 (born at sea) — (big fat huge LOOKY)

The Kish light vessel (replaced by a lighthouse in 1965) denoted the northern end of a series of dangerous sandbanks running parallel to the Irish coast. Lying about four miles offshore and extending from Dublin down to Wexford, they were responsible for the loss of many ships.

The Kish was a familiar mark of the course for the offshore regattas organised by yacht clubs based at Dun Leary (Dun Laoghaire), the commodious sheltered harbour serving Dublin.

Walters depicts a typical large cutter of the period apparently ahead of two similar craft, although in fact they are well placed up wind of the leader. Should the next leg of the course involve tacking around the light ship, the present windward yacht might well prove the winner.

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luzfosca: Sergio Larraín Daughters of fishermen in the village of Horcones, 1957 Also

luzfosca:

Sergio Larraín

Daughters of fishermen in the village of Horcones, 1957

Also

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arsvitaest: Wrecked at St Ives, Cornwall (via Podknox)

arsvitaest:

Wrecked at St Ives, Cornwall

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Centuries Ago, a Cat Walked Across This Medieval Manuscript While pawing through a stack of medieval manuscripts from Dubrovnik, Croatia, University of Sarajevo doctoral student Emir O. Filipović stumbled upon a familiar set of splotches marring the centuries-old pages. Years ago, a mischievous kitty had left her ink-covered prints on the book… Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/03/centuries-ago-a-cat-walked-across-this-medieval-manuscript/#ixzz2NXWblmLp Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter

Centuries Ago, a Cat Walked Across This Medieval Manuscript

While pawing through a stack of medieval manuscripts from Dubrovnik, Croatia, University of Sarajevo doctoral student Emir O. Filipović stumbled upon a familiar set of splotches marring the centuries-old pages. Years ago, a mischievous kitty had left her ink-covered prints on the book…


Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/03/centuries-ago-a-cat-walked-across-this-medieval-manuscript/#ixzz2NXWblmLp
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Tattoo by Meehow Kotarski from No Regrets Tattoo Studio in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Tattoo by Meehow Kotarski from No Regrets Tattoo Studio in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Seed Catalogue (1897)Robert Evans & Co., Ontario, Canada

Seed Catalogue (1897)
Robert Evans & Co., Ontario, Canada

painting4life: “Stormy Sea” by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1868

painting4life:

“Stormy Sea” by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1868

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scientificillustration: Jellyfish by BioDivLibrary on Flickr. Icones rerum naturalium :.Hauniæ [i.e., Copenhagen] :Ex officina Mölleri,MDCCLXXVI [1776]..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41360639

scientificillustration:

Jellyfish by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Icones rerum naturalium :.
Hauniæ [i.e., Copenhagen] :Ex officina Mölleri,MDCCLXXVI [1776]..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41360639

hoodoothatvoodoo: La Vie Parisienne 1915

hoodoothatvoodoo:

La Vie Parisienne

1915

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CECIL CALVERT BEALL (American artist, 1892-1967)Brawl at Sea, men’s magazine illustration, circa 1950sWatercolor, gouache, and tempera on board

CECIL CALVERT BEALL (American artist, 1892-1967)
Brawl at Sea, men’s magazine illustration, circa 1950s
Watercolor, gouache, and tempera on board

booksnbuildings: Ignazio Danti’s map of Venice

booksnbuildings:

Ignazio Danti’s map of Venice

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1949 version

Directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore and Dean Stockwell