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Shipmates! Until now, I have refrained from posting anything about my land-based job on this blog, but I’ve just curated a maritime music playlist using the collections of Smithsonian Folkways (the music label/recorded sound archives of the Smithsonian Institution). The result is two hours of sea shanties, shipwreck ballads, and other boat-related music from around the English-speaking world. I hope you enjoy!
Cover illustration by Darryl Norsen.
Gustave Dore.
Whaler 'Harpooner', c. 1831 (Science Museum)
Should an 1830s medical man long for the experience of strange seas and wondrous lands, he might find himself a position as a surgeon on a whaling ship, as described by Joan Druett in Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail:
Dr. James Brown found his ship in London. Accordingly, he was on board when the Japan was "towed by the Nelson, Tug Steamboat to Gravesend," on December 15, 1834. In May 1837, Dr. Fysh of the Coronet had the same experience, except that his ship was towed by the Tam O'Shanter. "All the men or nearly all drunk," he noted, adding, "That's nothing! It will be long before Jack [slang for a sailor] gets another chance of being so again! So go it my Boys make the best of your time."
Liverpool whaler c. 1834, Francis Hustwick (Ferens Art Gallery)
On October 14, 1837, on the far side of the Atlantic, another of our whaling surgeons boarded his ship—but probably not in a spirit of high adventure and lively anticipation. His feelings, by contrast, were much harder to gauge, since he had signed on to the voyage under very strange circumstances for a gentleman of his attainments.
This fellow's name was John B. King, and he hailed from the island of Nantucket. While London whalers finished their fitting out at Gravesend, Nantucket whaleships completed their preparations for voyage at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where Dr. King arrived on that date. [...] In 1832, at the age of twenty-four, King had graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons with the very substantial degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery. He was immediately awarded a certificate that allowed him to practice in New York [...] These elaborate qualifications failed to settle him down. He moved to Nantucket—and then he signed onto the whaler.
It was a most eccentric decision. For a start, there was no legal reason for Dr. King to be on board the Aurora. While an English whaling master was required by law to ship a surgeon, American whaleship captains were not.
— Joan Druett, Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
'South Sea Whale Fishery': 1834 print by William John Huggins (New Bedford Whaling Museum)
What if we were officers of the Hotspur. and we held hands
The Bunte Kuh by Hans Bordt, 1911
The Bunte Kuh (colourful cow) was probably snekkja, often depicted as a cog, which as one of the flagships of the Hanseatic fleet (she was the flagship of the city of Hamburg) led the attack on the German pirate Klaus Störtebeker in 1401.
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Japanese (1876-1950)
Hansen: Asa [Sailboats: Morning], from the series Seto Naikai Shū [Inland Sea Collection] Date Made:1926
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Captain: -comes up on deck and says “hello” in a silly voice-
Me: -says “hello” back in the same voice-
Me: -realizes the captain is on the phone-
William R. Davis (b.1952, American)-Moonlit Schooner. Oil on panel
HENDRIK WILLEM MESDAG (1831-1915, Dutch)-Calm sea
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA
Evening on a calm river, (1844)-Cornelis Petrus t' Hoen (1814-1880) was a Dutch painter.
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Tsartlip/Syilx First Nations/Canadian, 1957) - Killer Whale Has A Vision and Comes to Talk to Me about Proximological Encroachments of Civilizations in the Oceans (2010)
