#shipbuilding

[illustratus]

Mast-Tree Grove by Ivan Shishkin

[upennmanuscripts]

Two maps for Monday, in a copy of Benedetto Cotrugli's treatise on ships and shipbuilding, composed in 1464-1465. It includes information on cartography, construction and use of the compass, types of ships, and meteorology and astronomy for use in navigation, plus two maps of the earth typical of the time (UPenn LJS 473)

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[lascitasdelashoras]

Elvis Costello and Chet Baker, recording session for Shipbuilding (Punch The Clock album), 1983, London. Photo by © Keith Morris

[stone-cold-groove]

Atoms for Peace poster. General Dynamics Corporation - 1955.

[vox-anglosphere]

RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast - 31 May 1911

[locfan]

One of the 1,000 skilled Negro women working at the Kaiser shipyards, at Richmond, California, who helped build the SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7, 1943. Miss Odie Mae Embry mans the emergency switch for the protection of track workers as the huge crane swings 100 feet above. Joseph, E. F. (Emmanuel Francis), 1900 or 1901-1979, photographer Created / Published between 1943 and 1945

[the-golden-vanity]

@ltwilliammowett's post about ship caulking reminded me that in Fell's Point, Baltimore, there are two 18th century ship caulkers' houses that still stand and are being preserved as a historical site! My current project I'm working on for my land job is giving me renewed interest in shipwrights, caulkers, longshoremen, and other shore-based workers in the maritime world of the Age of Sail.

(all photos from shipcaulkers.org)

[therealpersae]