S. B. Atkinson

Maritime Archaeologist. Denim and Volkswagen enthusiast.

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World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in the Black Sea

An ancient Greek trading ship dating back more than 2,400 years has been found virtually intact at the bottom of the Black Sea, the world’s oldest known shipwreck, researchers said on Tuesday.

The vessel is one of more than 60 shipwrecks identified by the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project including Roman ships and a 17th-century Cossack raiding fleet.

During the three-year project, researchers used specialist remote deep-water camera systems previously used in offshore oil and gas exploration to map the sea floor.

“A small piece of the vessel has been carbon dated and it is confirmed as the oldest intact shipwreck known to mankind,” the project said in a statement.

The ship, which is lying on its side with its mast and rudders intact, was dated back to 400 BC—a time when the Black Sea was a trading hub filled with Greek colonies. Read more.

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some oddly specific advice from Hesiod (c700 BC)

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which thicc girl hurt you (and stole your grain)

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Scott’s ship the “Terra Nova” moving through the pack ice. Notice the funnel. The ship had a steam engine, of course.

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Ship wreck at Cape Cod 1925

Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer) 

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I love that human humor has basically never changed thousands of years ago we were still shitposters

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LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG SKELETONS DO IT WELL

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So…am I the only one who remembers The Origin of Donnie?

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WHERE THE FUCK WAS I WHEN THIS HAPPENED!?

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It was one of the saddest TV moments of my childhood! Donnie’s parents were originally very similar to Nigel and Mirianne. They befriended an orangutan mother and her son and taught them a single sign in sign-language: family. One day, poachers attached the orangutans. Donnie’s parents intervened and were killed for doing so. The villagers nearby sent their bodies to sea. Out of love and gratitude, the mother orangutan briefly ‘adopted’ Donnie, who was only a toddler. A year later, they stumbled across Nigel as he and the Thornberrys were filming. The orangutan decided that Donnie needed a human family and put Donnie in Nigel’s path. The Thornberrys, of course, adopted him, having personally known and respected his parents as great naturalists. 

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Fuk

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England Expects…

From Geoff Hunt’s spectacular series of prints depicting some of Admiral Nelson’s most famous commands. H.M.S. Victory makes Nelson’s signal, 21st October 1805. In this definitive image, H.M.S. Victory leads the Windward Squadron as the first part of the signal flies at the mizzen. The Franco-Spanish line is seen ahead, with the Spanish flagship Santisima Trinidad on the left, her distinctive orange-yellow paintwork clearly discernible…. At about 11:45 Nelson instructs his signal officer, Lieutenant John Pasco, to signal to the fleet…

His Lordship came to me on the poop, and after ordering certain signals to be made, about a quarter to noon, he said, ‘Mr. Pasco, I wish to say to the fleet, ENGLAND CONFIDES THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY’ and he added ‘You must be quick, for I have one more to make which is for close action.’ I replied, ‘If your Lordship will permit me to substitute the confides for expects the signal will soon be completed, because the word expects is in the vocabulary, and confides must be spelt,’ His Lordship replied, in haste, and with seeming satisfaction, ‘That will do, Pasco, make it directly.’ 

—John Pasco

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A portrait of the Shire by Daniel Kordan

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the anniversary of library paste man’s death is in four days.

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One hundred and ten years ago to the day. Amazing. Incredible.

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Dry weather reveals ancient site in Meath's Boyne Valley

Relics of Ireland’s ancient past have been uncovered - thanks to the recent heatwave and drought.

Images captured by a drone show a previously undiscovered monument or henge close to the 5,000 year old Newgrange monument in County Meath.

Measuring up to 200m in diameter, it is believed to be a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age enclosure.

“The weather is 95% responsible for this find,” said Anthony Murphy who found the site along with Ken Williams.

“The flying of the drone, knowledge of the area, and fluke make up the rest in this discovery,” he said.

“There’s more moisture in the field where the features of this site are and that’s why the grass is greener.

"So it shows up nicely against the more yellow grass around it.” Read more.

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16th-Century Shipwreck Off Florida Coast Is Worth Millions. But It Belongs to France, not US.

A 16th-century shipwreck that may be all that’s left of one of the first European voyages to America holds treasures worth millions of dollars. But now a judge has ruled that the company that discovered the wreck off the coast of Florida has no right to salvage the valuable artifacts.

That’s because the artifacts may be from a small fleet of French ships, led by the explorer Jean Ribault, which sailed to establish a colony in Florida in 1562 and 1565. In a decision on the legal dispute released last week, U.S. judge Karla Spaulding gave ownership of the wreck and its valuable artifacts to the nation of France.

The Florida marine salvage company Global Marine Enterprises (GME) located the wreck’s three ornate bronze cannons — each worth more than $1 million — and a distinctive marble monument (which is now considered “priceless”) off Cape Canaveral in May and June of 2016. Read more.

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Photographed 2018 by Slade Powell

Charles W. Morgan with her topsails set! So good to see canvas on her at last. It’s been a long winter.

Why does she have two topsails on the same mast? Well at one point in the 19th century some bright spark said “you know what would be faster than one topsail? TWO TOPSAILS” His buddies said “isn’t that a topgallant” and he responded “no lads I mean TWO TOPSAILS” and they said “go home you’re drunk”. But he didn’t. Whoever this mad inventor was, he made it happen and it caught on for awhile, like pet rocks or the charleston, before dropping away into the misty backwaters of history where it frankly belongs. RIP that guy and his dream, a dream of TWO TOPSAILS

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sailing fast and free

The wooden barque ‘Eleizer’, 876 tons, under sail. A wooden 3 masted barque photographed abt 1895

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Lobster Johnson Art by Tommy Lee Edwards