Seven Seas vitamins advert - designed by Tom Eckersley
Scanned from an advertising annual this fine work by the well-known poster artist and designer Eckersley makes a bold point about the nautical origins of the company’s cod liver oil based vitamin products - ‘Jolly Jack Tar’ doesn’t come any healthier than this!
Seven Seas were founded in Hull in 1935 and are still in business manufacturing the same products. Sadly, as noted below, the day I posted this Merck, who own Seven Seas, announced the proposed closure of the Hull works after nearly 80 years - bad news.
Baily Enterprises - Adventures For Boys (complete readable comic)
Fishing Smack off Osbourne Bay; The South-Coast Shrimper
Fishing Smack under Sail - Charles Brooking ( 1723-1759 ) from the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of Britain and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century. Large numbers of these boats could be seen operating in fleets from places such as Brixham, Grimsby and Lowestoft. In England the sails were usually red ochre in colour, which made them a picturesque sight in large numbers.
Smacks were often rebuilt into steam boats in the 1950s. Some old smacks have been re-rigged into ketches (or were never made into steam boats) and are now used as training boats for young sailors.
Superior Stories 03: The Wreck of the Grosvenor
The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877) is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell, first published in 3 volumes. According to John Sutherland, it was “the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea.”
It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century. It was Russell’s best selling and most well known novel.
READ The Wreck of the Grosvenor at Internet Archive (scanned books, original editions, color illustrated)
View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam; 1673
by Ludolf Backhuysen (1630 – 1708)
Alexander Adriaenssen ( 1587–1661 )
A Still Life with Crabs, Roses, Jug, and Loaf of Bread (1646)
Portugal, naval war scene on tile mural; 18th Century
Hours of Reading Entertainment for Service Men
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