#midshipman

[ltwilliammowett]

Midshipman Lord William Blakeney - Master and Commander

[ganymedian]

Commission for @1ventipls YAY THANK YOUUUUUU

[tyger-land]

𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 Naval Academy Oarsman. 1921. Oil on canvas: 51 × 41 cm (20 × 16 in).

[clove-pinks]

Portrait of a Captain Raynor, R.N., seated on a rocky bank, in a midshipman's uniform by James Northcote, 1784.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #629

Plainfin midshipman!

While the plainfin midshipman can live up to several hundred meters deep, this fish breeds in the intertidal zone! A (type I) male will claim a nest site, typically under a rock or in a crevice, and woo females to lay their eggs in his nest. Once he has enough eggs to his liking, he fertilises them and cares for the eggs and young larvae until they grow to a juvenile age! The midshipman father is very attentive to his babies, as he keeps their nest as clean as possible and fans them out to give them better access to oxygenated water, he’ll even go and get more water to the nest if the eggs are in danger of drying out during low tide.

[illustratus]

Nelson and the Bear by Richard Westall

[itsmythang]

NAVY ACADEMY ACTIVE SHOOTER SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AS: JACKSON FLEMING. EARLY REPORTS SAY 3 DEAD. Jackson Fleming, a dismissed midshipman who began firing on campus.

[marryat92]

The circumstance of my going to sea affected my father in no other way than it interfered with his domestic comforts by the immoderate grief of my poor mother. In any other point of view my choice of profession was a source of no regret to him.

— Frederick Marryat, Frank Mildmay (The Naval Officer).

"Fitting Out": an 1820 drawing and watercolour picture by Captain Marryat (British Museum). The mother of the young midshipman destined for H M Ship Hellfire weeps at left.