#ship logs

[pierrotsoup]

my library special collections Moby dick and natural history tea ... First edition in my grasp 🤤🤤✌️

[ltwilliammowett]

Master William Hodgson, Journal of a Voyage, bound volume of two manuscript logs, with 35 watercolor drawings, at sea, 1819 and 1821

In January of 1819, William Hodgson steered the three-masted merchant ship Transit down the River Avon from Bristol, beginning a six-month voyage toward the Mediterranean. He filled his logs with beautiful drawings and lines from famous poems like William Falconer‘s epic Shipwreck or a line from William Cowper‘s Human Frailty

The volume contains logs of two different vessels’ voyages to the Mediterranean on which William Hodgson was the master. The first chronicles the voyage of the Transit from January to June, 1819, from Bristol to the Mediterranean; the second was written aboard the two-masted ship Astræa on her voyage from London to the Mediterranean in 1821. Both were small trading vessels out of England.

Little is known about Hodgson but he was a skilled artist who depicts the two ships from different angles, in various ports, in calm and choppy seas, and at different times of the day, including tranquil sunrise and moonlit scenes. Portraits of the occasional ship encountered on the voyage are included, as well as landscape coastal profiles and the Rock of Gibraltar.

[mindscape-neighborhood]

I REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO SEE LEWD ART OF MY GRANDPARENT FIGURE AND OTHER PARENTAL FIGURE DOING THINGS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. BUT HERE WE ARE. I GUESS. -🌱

[z428]

Calling ships to port...

#outerworld #smartphonephotography #sassnitz #port #ship logs

[mapsontheweb]

Sailing Voyages Animated: 1745-1835

The Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans (CLIWOC) is a database of nearly 300,000 log entries that were made by sailing ships in the 18th and 19th centuries. This animation shows ocean traffic from 1745-1835.

[mapsontheweb]

Ship-log entries by voyages, 1740-1855.

[mapsontheweb]

Log entries mentioning death in ship-logs, 1740-1855.

[mapsontheweb]

Ship-log entries by major European trading companies, 1740-1855.