“Come, ferryman, ferry me over,
To a ship that’s call’d the Fame
For there I’ve got a husband,
But hang me, if I know his name —”A verse from a song noted down by Marine Lieutenant Robert Steel and quoted in Jack Tar.
Basically a lot of prostitutes would claim to have husbands on board in order to gain entrance to a ship when it arrived in port. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t.
uhm, ok.
A yard is a spar on a mast from which sails are set. Yardarms are the outermost tips of the yard.
The yard exists to allow square sails to be set to drive the ship. In order to set and stow the square sails, the crew must climb aloft and spread out along the yards. To do this, they stand in footropes suspended beneath the yard and balance themselves between that and the yard itself. The person working on the end of the yardarm has a separate footrope known as the flemish horse.
Ship Garthsnaid, 1920’s.
There, now you’ve learned something today.
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(Source: shipsandstarwars, via moewie)
He shall be punished in the nature of his offense.
—Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
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George Herriman’s Early Masterpieces; New Books from Rosebud Archives
Rosebud Archives, founded by Rick Marschall and Jonathan Barli, specializes in the great comic and illustration work of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
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Eqalussuaq [Inuit] - Somniosus microcephalus (The Greenland Shark)
The Greenland shark is big, slow, and an apex predator of the sea. Despite its top speed of not over 2 mph (and this fast only in short sprints - it generally moves under 1 mph), it is still the second-largest carnivorous fish on Earth, and has been found with polar bear, reindeer, narwhal, and even other sharks in its stomach. Of course, although the Greenland shark is decent at hunting sharks, (sleeping) seals, and fish in the water, the polar bear and reindeer remains are from carrion that drifted to the bottom of the ocean. It’s an opportunistic predator, and will try to eat almost anything in its path.
Over 90% of the arctic Greenland sharks are hosts to the parasitic copepod Ommatokoita elongata (seen in the illustration), which has evolved to permanently attach themselves to the corneas of the genus Somnosius. They absorb nutrients through the blood vessels in the eyes and corneal fluid, and cause serious vision impairment in those affected by their presence. However, since the Greenland shark lives up to 7,200 ft (2,200 m) below the surface, it has little use of eyesight to begin with, and is believed to be largely unharmed by the presence of eyeball-sucking copepods tagging along on their corneas.
A History of the Fishes of the British Isles. Jonathan Couch, 1868.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6d3m7q53t1qk931ho1_400.jpg)
Eqalussuaq [Inuit] - Somniosus microcephalus (The Greenland Shark)
The Greenland shark is big, slow, and an apex predator of the sea. Despite its top speed of not over 2 mph (and this fast only in short sprints - it generally moves under 1 mph), it is still the second-largest carnivorous fish on Earth, and has been found with polar bear, reindeer, narwhal, and even other sharks in its stomach. Of course, although the Greenland shark is decent at hunting sharks, (sleeping) seals, and fish in the water, the polar bear and reindeer remains are from carrion that drifted to the bottom of the ocean. It’s an opportunistic predator, and will try to eat almost anything in its path.
Over 90% of the arctic Greenland sharks are hosts to the parasitic copepod Ommatokoita elongata (seen in the illustration), which has evolved to permanently attach themselves to the corneas of the genus Somnosius. They absorb nutrients through the blood vessels in the eyes and corneal fluid, and cause serious vision impairment in those affected by their presence. However, since the Greenland shark lives up to 7,200 ft (2,200 m) below the surface, it has little use of eyesight to begin with, and is believed to be largely unharmed by the presence of eyeball-sucking copepods tagging along on their corneas.
A History of the Fishes of the British Isles. Jonathan Couch, 1868.
(via mudwerks)
(Source: chasinglinnaeus, via scientificillustration)
Edward Donovan, 1799, The natural history of British shells.
(via scientificillustration)
Miracle Sportswear - Best Catch of the Season!
See-worthy Miracles mix, match and look a million in sailtone, crease-resistant, washable cotton by Fuller Fabrics. Cool, lightweight, gay-toned….so mart with the new Shirt look, cord accents and laced pockets, plus soft-touch white stitching.
As I mentioned in our Firefly post, I’ll be covering San Diego Comic Con for Deep Sea News. I’ll actually be attending the convention tomorrow, but here’s a little preview of some cephalopodic comic goodness, courtesy of Dark Horse Comics.
Over on my Google+, Danna Staaf has the best reaction: “Maybe it’s a the plaintive look in their eyes or the supplicative gesture of their arms, but those look more like lost souls than devils to me. So now I’m wondering, do we all have cephalopods for souls, or merely the wicked?”
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Richard Parkes Bonnington - La Ferte [c.1825] by Gandalf’s Gallery on Flickr.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m71ukx35df1qb2rh9o1_400.jpg)
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