#draughtsmen

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Admiral Page 047! ⚓

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Thomas once again finds himself in a memory from two years previous - during a conversation between himself, then acting Master Shipbuilder at Harland & Wolff, Alexander Carlisle, Chairman of Harland & Wolff, Lord William Pirrie, and owner of the White Star Line, J. Bruce Ismay -- at odds over the amount of lifeboats that he and Carlisle recommend (a minimum of 32) whereas, both Pirrie and Ismay wished to capitalize on the deck space by sticking with the 16 regulation lifeboats - regulations based on ships of a gross tonnage of 10,000 tons created in 1894. Titanic with her 16 lifeboats and the 4 collapsible boats exceeded the Board of Trade's minimum. So convinced they were that Titanic was so perfectly designed that the lifeboats themselves would barely, if ever, be used. Thank you so much for reading!

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[ravingindian]

more collaborative #clubdoodles with @michael_mcwilliams_foldenauer. the boii is one of my fav #draughtsmen on this whole fucked up beautiful planet, go #see for #yourself!

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Draughtsmen

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Beautiful drawings by Ali Yanya

Dating from 1980 - 2004

[mobydickforward-blog]

Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True #56.7

The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings they have of their whaling scenes. With not one tenth of England's experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the whale hunt. For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid. Even Scoresby, the justly renowned Right whaleman, after giving us a stiff full length of the Greenland whale, and three or four delicate miniatures of narwhales and porpoises, treats us to a series of classical engravings of boat hooks, chopping knives, and grapnels; and with the microscopic diligence of a Leuwenhoeck submits to the inspection of a shivering world ninety-six fac-similes of magnified Arctic snow crystals. I mean no disparagement to the excellent voyager (I honour him for a veteran), but in so important a matter it was certainly an oversight not to have procured for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of the Peace.