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[theoutcastrogue]

The Longest Johns - Hoist Up The Thing

Fresh out of college, with grades straight from Hell I browsed for a trade at which I could excel An ad for a ship in need of some manning Men, sails, and purpose, but lacking a captain

What luck, says I, to find such good fortune! A few white lies later, I ran down the pier Bought me a coat and a cutlass or two Jumped on the deck, and I yelled at the crew:

Hoist up the thing! Batten down the whatsit! What’s that thing spinning? Somebody should stop it! Turn hard to port! (That’s not port) Now I’ve got it! Trust me, I’m in control!

I can’t sing the shanties, it has to be said And all of that grog just goes right to my head Whale meat is gross and I miss a girl’s laugh Five weeks at sea, even Dave seems a catch!

We’ve hit icy waters, no land to be seen The food’s getting low and the beer has gone green There’s murmurs of discontent under the deck If I don’t act fast, it could be my neck!

So pull up the charts and those weird gold machines I see what it says but no clue what it means! Just pull on some levers and yank on some chains Feign a bad back till we’ve landed again

Hoist up the thing! Batten down the whatsit! What’s that thing spinning? Somebody should stop it! (BLOODY HELL!) Turn hard to port! (This is SHERRY!) Now I’ve got it! (screaming) Trust me, I’m in control! (MUMMY!) Trust me, I’m in control!

[thisisfinestudios]

Hello age of sail gang I need your help.

So I'm making my notion study planner for the semester and I want to include some nice dramatic ship paintings so I can look at the paintings and be filled with longing

If yall wouldn't mind replying or rebloging with your favourite ship/sea paintings, that would be helpful! Please include the name of said paintings lol

[clove-pinks]

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867)

Sketchbook of D. Tandy, circa 1798-1805

Thomas Butterworth (1768-1842)

William Clark (1803-1883)

OP, here are a few of my old school favorites.

[ltwilliammowett]

Shore Duties

Not all officers commissioned by the Admiralty were always at sea. There were also many who simply no longer wanted to go to sea, or who were unfit for duty. For this there were the so-called shore duties.

One of these was the impress service, which required about 30 captains and 70 lieutenants to regulate everything, take on ships that needed men and coordinate the press gangs, hire transpost cutters and put the pressed men on hulks and sort them. Each coastal signal station had a commanding lieutenant and the Sea Fancibles, a defence line that operated from land to manipulate enemy shipping and defend the coasts, liked to hire experienced officers. The dockyards also had experienced naval officers in their administrative areas. The agents of the Transport Board were all lieutenants. And the Naval Office in London was run by Post Captains.

However, all those in shore duty were excluded from any promotion unless they went back to sea. However, this did not apply to captains and special admirals who held political office on the side, who could even hope to be appointed to the Admiralty.

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[tristesolitude]

[boatcats]

No AI on the bridge! We get inaccurate information the old fashioned way! By getting the FLAGS stuck in the ANEMOMETER!

[montserrat-light]

@ltwilliammowett since it was through one of your posts that I discovered it was possible to sail on tall ships about nine months ago (after being fascinated by sailing ships for as long as I remembered myself), I think it's only fair that I express my gratitude by sharing one of the videos I took of the drop-dead gorgeous Statsraad Lehmkuhl during this year's Tall Ships Races, three weeks ago. Funny how you can influence strangers' lives sometimes, ain't it?

[id-be-home-with-you]

Moby Dick WIP

[pepurika]

Tiger, Tiger - Page 826

A young noble lady steals her brother's identity and his ship to find love and adventure, and to write a book about the fascinating life cyc

Five new pages!! link goes to the first one!

[pepurika]

Did ya see? my tumblr censored update?

[valtsv]

[ourbastardofsorrows]

live, laugh, last seen by whalers in baffin bay

[houseofmartok]

[currentlyderomanus]

LITERATURE MEME | 9 poems - (6) the rime of the ancient mariner by samuel taylor coleridge

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor an drop to drink.

read in full here

[transgenderer]

Some people are stable like a pyramid. im more like a guyed mast. Intrinsically unstable, held stable under tension by powerful balancing forces. the tallest of me was in poland but collapsed in 1974

[cicadako]

A little comic for Mermay

[clove-pinks]

Whaler 'Harpooner', c. 1831 (Science Museum)

Should an 1830s medical man long for the experience of strange seas and wondrous lands, he might find himself a position as a surgeon on a whaling ship, as described by Joan Druett in Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail:

Dr. James Brown found his ship in London. Accordingly, he was on board when the Japan was "towed by the Nelson, Tug Steamboat to Gravesend," on December 15, 1834. In May 1837, Dr. Fysh of the Coronet had the same experience, except that his ship was towed by the Tam O'Shanter. "All the men or nearly all drunk," he noted, adding, "That's nothing! It will be long before Jack [slang for a sailor] gets another chance of being so again! So go it my Boys make the best of your time."

Liverpool whaler c. 1834, Francis Hustwick (Ferens Art Gallery)

On October 14, 1837, on the far side of the Atlantic, another of our whaling surgeons boarded his ship—but probably not in a spirit of high adventure and lively anticipation. His feelings, by contrast, were much harder to gauge, since he had signed on to the voyage under very strange circumstances for a gentleman of his attainments.

This fellow's name was John B. King, and he hailed from the island of Nantucket. While London whalers finished their fitting out at Gravesend, Nantucket whaleships completed their preparations for voyage at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where Dr. King arrived on that date. [...] In 1832, at the age of twenty-four, King had graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons with the very substantial degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery. He was immediately awarded a certificate that allowed him to practice in New York [...] These elaborate qualifications failed to settle him down. He moved to Nantucket—and then he signed onto the whaler.

It was a most eccentric decision. For a start, there was no legal reason for Dr. King to be on board the Aurora. While an English whaling master was required by law to ship a surgeon, American whaleship captains were not.

— Joan Druett, Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail

'South Sea Whale Fishery': 1834 print by William John Huggins (New Bedford Whaling Museum)

[lykereska]

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Basically ever since the comic started, I've been wanting to compose a fansong for the amazing webcomic "Tiger, Tiger" by @pepurika that has been a constant source of entertainment, joy and inspiration in the last *checks calendar* eight years of my life! And with us now entering the final chapter and the comic having just won an Eisner Award (congratulations for that, absolutely deserved!!), what better time than now? I wanted this song to feel a bit like an opening to the comic and capture the sense of adventure and fun (but also a bit of mystery) that the comic so perfectly combines - I hope I could do it justice! To everyone who has not read Tiger, Tiger yet - what are you waiting for, go read it right now!!

The song cover image is from page 10 of Tiger, Tiger

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Melampus (1785), by Chris Woodhouse, 1990 (detail)

HMS Melampus was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy that served with distinction during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous enemy vessels and prizes before being sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1815. Renamed Melampus, she served as the flagship of the Dutch squadron during the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816 and later took part in several colonial punitive expeditions in the Dutch East Indies.

[ltwilliammowett]

Napoleon III Receiving Queen Victoria at Cherbourg, 5 August 1858 - J. A. Nöel (detail)

The ship is the Bretagne a 130-gun three-deck first rate french steamer, ship of the line , launched and commissioned in 1855. Propulsion: Indret steam engine, 8 boilers, 4,800 shp (3,600 kW), 1 propeller. Max speed: 12.6 knots