The True Frigate

“On and on she sailed, in warmer seas but void, as though they alone had survived Deucalion’s flood; as though all land had vanished from the earth; and once again the ship’s routine dislocated time and temporal reality so that this progress was an endless dream, even a circular dream, contained within an unbroken horizon and punctuated only by the sound of guns thundering daily in preparation for an enemy whose real existence it was impossible to conceive.” — Patrick O’Brian, HMS Surprise.

[afemalesebastian]

"Certainly he had heard of Homer, and had indeed looked into Mr Pope's version of his tale; but for aught he could make out, the fellow was no seaman. Admittedly Ulysses had no chronometer, and probably no sextant neither; but with no more than log, lead and lookout an officer-like commander would have found his way home from Troy a d—d sight quicker than that. Hanging about in port and philandering, that was what it amounted to, the vice of navies from the time of Noah to that of Nelson. And as for that tale of all his foremast hands being turned into swine, so that he could not win his anchor or make sail, why, he might tell that to the Marines. Besides, he behaved like a very mere scrub to Queen Dido—though on second thought perhaps that was the other cove, the pious Anchises. But it was all one: they were six of one and half a dozen of the other, neither seamen nor gentlemen, and both of 'em God d—d bores into the bargain."

Jack Aubrey on Homer

(Treason's Harbour, Chapter 9)

[ltwilliammowett]

Royal Navy Uniform- board

1. 1812- 1825 pattern ( Lieutenant)

2. 1843 pattern ( Rear- Admiral)

3. 1795- 1812 pattern ( Admiral)

4. 1812- 1825 pattern ( Rear- Admiral)

5. 1795-1812 pattern ( Vice- Admiral)

6. 1827- 1843 pattern ( Midshipman)

7 . 1805 pattern ( Surgeon)

8. 1825- 1832 pattern ( Surgeon)

9. 1795- 1812 pattern ( Captain)

10. 1774- 1787 pattern ( Captain)

[alastairbgray]

Opoutere

[ltwilliammowett]

Captain Gilbert Heathcote (1779–1831), RN, by William Owen (1769–1825)

[ltwilliammowett]

Work aloft - Reefing sails, by Charles Pears (1873-1958, English)

[ltwilliammowett]

A Ship of the Line off Plymouth, Devon, by Thomas Luny (1759–1837)

[ltwilliammowett]

A Spanish Three-Decker at anchor off Naples, by Abraham Willaerts (c.1603–1669)

[fluentisonus]

a fireship burning a flagship, willem van de velde the younger, c. 1692

[p0stm0rtem-l1v1d1ty]

Trying my hand at some "serious" art (I was really bored)

This one has a title too! "HMS Terror signals to HMS Erebus"

[ship-to-starboard]

Three hand-painted storyboards depicting scenes from Hornblower: The Frogs And The Lobsters.

[hms-ratfiish]

rip hms polychrest. leaked, copper got embezzled by the shipyard, kept sailing backwards, did absolutely nothing well except drifting magnificently to leewards. despite her name was in fact the antithesis of a medecine that cured all ills. dearest floating cocked hat we will never see another ship quite like you!!

[sailorloneperblog]

"The schooner is Lord Colville's yacht Volage"-Richard Brydges Beechey (1808 - 1895) was an Anglo-Irish painter and admiral in the Royal Navy. 

[ivan-aivazovsky-paintings]

-A Rocky Coastal Landscape in the Aegean-

[sailorloneperblog]

MARK MYERS (b.1945, American)-The 'Medusa', 32 guns, sailing from the Downs, August 1801. Watercolour .

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"Sardinian Barquentine Cristina", (1829)-Antonio Pittaluga was an artist who worked in 1825-1850.

[rested-shaved-coffeed]

Sail250 Part 2: Night in the City

First is the USCGC Eagle, with some friends across the river in Brooklyn (the Portuguese Sagres on the left, the Indian Sudarshini on the right). Then we have the Pride of Baltimore in the foreground with the Wavertree, a permanent part of the South Street Seaport Museum, in the background.

[miscosasalberto]