Location of the Bermuda Floating Dock
She was towed out by the HMS Agincourt and HMS Northumberland as far as Porto Santo, Madeira, where HMS Warrior (Britain’s first iron-hulled battleship, built in Blackwall on the River Thames in 1860 as a counter to the naval ambitions of Emperor Napoleon III of France, the fastest, largest, strongest and best-armed warship in the world but was obsolete by 1869) and HMS Black Prince took over.
With HMS Terrible and a small gunboat fast astern, the voyage took 35 days. The ships and the floating dock arrived off Ireland Island on July 28. The floating dock lay in Grassy Bay until the following April when it was brought to the North Basin and moored against the Great Wharf.
As a functioning Dockyard, this facility had ammunition depots, deep water berths, barracks, chapels, soldiers and sailors to guard it. The soldiers were based at the fort here, the largest in Bermuda (now the Bermuda Maritime Museum).
from: Bermuda’s Royal Navy base at Ireland Island from 1815 to the 1960s
see also: vintage postcards; Bermuda Floating Dock
The Costa Concordia is the latest in a series of major disasters at sea since the Titanic sank 100 years ago
on The Guardian
historic souvenir
Over a picture of a large ship are inscribed the words: “Purchased on board by James Cunningham, 14th June 1861”. Below, the name of the ship is recorded – “S.S. Great Eastern”
The ship’s first commercial voyage to America took place in June 1860. The 35 fare-paying passengers were somewhat outnumbered by the 418 crew. In fact, Great Eastern had enough accommodation for 4,000 passengers. This was an early sign that the Great Ship Company would have difficulty in making any money out of their flagship.
Her second voyage of May 1861 was hardly more successful, with 100 passengers booking to America and 194 on the return journey.
Indonesia, Sumatra; Wai Ratai River region
19th century
A crucial trade route since antiquity, the Lampung region of southern Sumatra has long been a crossroads of cultures and artistic traditions. Lampung’s sumptuous textile traditions reflect the enormous wealth brought to the region through the trade in pepper, which grew in abundance.
The corvette founders.
Achille-Isidore Gilbert, from Ninety-three vol. 1, by Victor Hugo, London, New York, 1889.
(Source: archive.org)
King Kong attacks Dr. Who (characters from the Rankin-Bass cartoon series were developed into the Toho kaiju eiga King Kong Escapes), Asahi Sonorama, (1967)
東宝版『キングコングの逆襲』と東映動画版『キングコング』…なぜか？同じ香りがする理由…。ランキン＝バス・プロダクションによる原作を基に米・ビデオクラフトインターナショナルと東映動画による日米合作アニメ『ＫＩＮＧＫＯＮＧ ＴＨＥ ＡＮＩＭＡＴＩＯＮ.』
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A couple of drawings for this month’s feature in Network World Magazine, which was on upcoming industrial trends over the next year (and was also nautically themed). You can check out a couple more drawings from that here.
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USS Delaware in drydock
(Source: denofopulence, via thingsihappentolike)
“We picked up a few bits and bobs at the Ephemera fair on Sunday, including this shipping label from the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company”
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