The Lesser of Two Weevils

▪︎ 𝐄. 𝐇. 𝐀. ✯ 𝐗𝐗𝐈𝐈 ✯ 𝐇𝐞/𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 ▪︎  Just your average amateur historian, book lover, and nerd. WARNING: This tumblr is filled with nerdery of all sorts. ▪ Silly historical side blog to @blue-spectors

[charliecoxroom]

Moby Dick (Still Photos)

Charlie Cox as Ishmael  

[benjhawkins]

Happy Evacuation Day! This day marks the end of the Siege of Boston by British forces and their eviction.

The story behind Evacuation Day, the holiday Boston officially recognizes on March 17

March 17 is officially observed as Evacuation Day in Boston, even though St. Patrick’s Day falls on the same date. Here's the history of the

[catilinas]

[presidenttyler-deactivated20260]

yeah so that's about all we know about that historical event [shaking, bulging eyes, clenched fists, blood is running down my palms] anyway, we'll never know anything more, probably, which is fine

[ltwilliammowett]

Unloading Whale Oil Central Wharf, New Bedford, Mass. 1840, by John Stobart (1929-2023)

[amos-evans]

Happy Valentines day! I have many things to be doing but ignore that and enjoy my nonsense valentines :D

+ A especially nonsensical bonus under the cut because if nothing else I will stay on brand

*the full quote, ‘You are a hard set of butchers,’ was said by Seaman Richard Dunn. During the battle with HMS Guerriere Dunn's left leg was struck by a grape shot or langrage, shattering his tibia and lacerating the muscle. The day after battle Amos Alexander Evans amputated the leg at the knee, prompting the above quote. All of this is according to Seaman Moses Smith. [Moses Smith, Naval Scenes in the Last War; (Boston, Gleason’s Publishing Hall: 1846)]

[ganymedian]

This was supposed to be a joke drawing based on this but it got way out of control

[ganymedian]

It’s the night of the 4th of September 1804. Captain Richard Somers places a piece of his ring into the hands of his bosom companion, Stephen Decatur, before going off on a mission he’ll never come back from. Decatur will wear the ring until his death.

[ltwilliammowett]

Good books on the subject of naval slang

Sailors' Language, by W. Clark Russell, 1883

Soldiers and Sailor Words and Phrases, by Edward Fraser and John Gibbons, 1925

Sea Slang, by Frank C. Bowen, 1929

Royal Navalese, by Commander John Irving, 1946

Sea Slang of the Twentieth Century, by Wilfried Granville, 1949

The Sailor's Word Book, by Admiral W.H. Smyth, 1967

[chiropteracupola]

these fellows from @iamthemaestro’s 18thcposting have been haunting me for the past month.

[podcastwizard]

if you're in the throes of cosmic despair i cannot recommend museums enough. art or science or history it doesn't matter. oh we're all connected, all of us and everything, throughout all time and space, and no one, no one, no one is alone? awesome. that's what i thought i just wanted to make sure.

[ganymedian]

Bush from a screen cap

[kristinagehrmann]

“Deep in the silent waters,     A thousand fathoms low, A gallant ship lies perishing—     She foundered long ago.”

(Full poem here)

More watercolor adventures - I’m trying to paint as many as possible at the moment. Here’s a secret: for every work I deem good enough to post, I fuck up two others that will never see the light of day. It is quite discouraging at times. But that’s the natural course of making art, right? Watercolor on paper, A3 size.

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[sadboybrigade]

His season 1 hair is soooo soft and perfect 🤌

[bugyarn]

aubreyyyyyyyyyy

[ganymedian]

Pick a book from my shelf

Naval Songs and Ballads - NRS

Whale Ships and Whaling - Dow

The Naval War of 1812 - C S Forester

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - W H G Kingston

Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors - James Barnes

Decatur and Somers - Molly Elliott Seawell

Dressed to Kill - Amy Miller

Naval Actions of the War of 1812 - James Barnes

Story of the Seaman V 1/2 - Meigs

The Romantic Decatur - Charles Lee Lewis

Nelson’s Navy - Brian Lavery

Jack Tar: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Seamen…- Roy & Leslie Adkins

Voting ended onOct 6, 2025

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[ganymedian]

Some freebies from IA and Gutenberg

Naval Songs and Ballads

Whale ships and whaling

Naval War of 1812

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves

Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors

Decatur and Somers

Naval Actions of the War of 1812

Story of the Seaman Volume 1 (??) Volume 2

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