#aernout smit

[oldsardens]

Aernout Smit - Ships in a quiet estuary

[marryat92]

The Utrecht sailed with a flowing sheet, and was soon clear of the English Channel; the voyage promised to be auspicious, favouring gales bore them without accident to within a few hundred miles of the Cape of Good Hope, when, for the first time, they were becalmed. Amine was delighted: in the evenings she would pace the deck with Philip; then all was silent, except the splash of the wave as it washed against the side of the vessel—all was in repose and beauty, as the bright southern constellations sparkled over their heads.

— Frederick Marryat, The Phantom Ship

Aernout Smit, Table Bay (detail), c. 1683

[oldsardens]

Aernout Smit - A Dutch three-master firing a salute, together with numerous other ships near a quay to the left, a windmill in the distance and outskirts of towns on the far horizon

[laclefdescoeurs]

A Smalschip closed hauled in a stiff breeze with a Flagship offshore to the left and a Jetty to the right, Aernout Smit