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“why would anyone choose the 1830s?” I Know Why.

#paul gavarni caught in glue trap baited with cigarettes

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A shot in the dark, but this reminds me of the legend of the ghost ship Octavius.

I remember encountering the Octavius story in some kind of Strange But True stories collection for children; I was drawn in by the lurid description of the frozen mummified crew and the smell of death below decks. I remember a graphic illustration, too (better than this one I found in a quick search).

Ahoy, shipmates!

Over the course of several delayed flights this weekend, I devoured a paperback copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. I found it enjoyable, if not a Great Classic Work Of Literature.

My question to you now is, there's a chapter in the middle of the book where our castaway hero encounters a plague ship. It moves erratically through the water before them, with what appears to be a smiling, nodding sailor at the rail, acknowledging Arthur and his fellow castaways.

However, as the ship approaches, the stench of death washes over our hero and his companions, and as it passes under their stern, they can see that all aboard the ship are dead of some terrible, unknown disease, and that the smile and nod they perceived were the rictus of death and the movement of a seagull feasting on the dead sailor's flesh.

This is my first time reading this book, and yet there's something viscerally, intensely familiar about this imagery. I feel like I've read this somewhere else before. Perhaps it was in a graphic novel, because my mental image of this scene appears in a sort of comic-book style.

Does anyone have any ideas where I might have encountered this before? Any help would be appreciated.

@clove-pinks @benjhawkins @ltwilliammowett @saranilssonbooks

#i should read again #the narrative of arthur gordon pym of nantucket #i remember it was very good #the sea #maritime history #ghost ships #octavius

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I had to go to Michigan today for Business Reasons, and my wife drove me because my car is still being fixed for an issue under warranty. I was able to enjoy more of the trip as a passenger and smiled to see signs for Frenchtown (Charter Township)—just like in the War of 1812!

I can't believe how close I am to River Raisin National Battlefield!!! This is even more exciting news than the fact that the same town also has approximately one million recreational marijuana dispensaries. (Yes Michigan, I have seen the 'Welcome Oh-HIGH-oans!' billboard).

It was a very scenic drive, crossing over the land divided by huge rivers in the vicinity of the Lost Pennisula, and we went over Glass City Skyway bridge, crossing the Maumee River with the museum ships of the National Museum of the Great Lakes moored below.

Here it is from the perspective of museum tug Ohio!

#shaun talks #maumee river #war of 1812 #i can't wait to visit the river raisin battlefield! #i am so so spoiled with war of 1812 historic sites nearby #marijuana mention #michigan mentioned #toledo

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happy april 22nd ✌️

#franklin expedition

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The Candidate (1920)

#finally a leyendecker fat guy #1920s #art #fashion #jc leyendecker

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Leslie Howard as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

[for @walkingcontradiction42, the fellow Leslie fan hehe]

#the scarlet pimpernel 1934 #i need to watch this #miwackulous movie #miwackulous tye monday

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Miwackulous Tye Monday

HOW THE DOOSE DOES HE MANAGE IT ?

#miwackulous tye monday

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H.M.S. Culloden, under Captain Troubridge's command, stranded on a shoal off Aboukir Island as the battle of the Nile (1798) rages in the distance ahead of her, by William Anderson (1757-1837)

#royal navy #the sea #art #battle of the nile #1790s

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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:17–19 (NIV)

#quotes #scripture #niv

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It's here! The teaser episode for No Common Voyage is up to tell you all about what's coming up! My guest star is my cat Misha who decided to paw at stuff while I recorded! Yay!

#franklin expedition #no common voyage #podcast #!!!

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Union Cavalry Soldier with Pistol in Holster, from Indiana, 1861-5

Photo by Tappin's Photograph Art Gallery (American, active 1860s)

In the Met Museum

#1860s #american civil war #dressed to kill

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The Battle of Trafalgar by John Christian Schetky

#the sea #royal navy #battle of trafalgar #art

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Friends, Romans, tumblristas: are any of you receiving bot messages if you allow anyone to message your blog?

Only people I follow can message my main at this time, but it's only because I have received several spam messages here. I feel like it's unnecessarily hostile, and I don't mind at all when people who aren't mutuals or even followers send me polite messages.

#shaun talks #many lovely people also follow me that are not mutuals #tumblr

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Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata), family Phocidae, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska

photograph by Josh London

#polar #marine biology #seals #ribbon seal #the sea

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"Our National Defences" by John Leech, 1848.

French invasion? They'll never succeed with this malnourished 1840s teenager protecting Albion's shores!

#Eighteen-Forties Friday #1840s #john leech #1848 #comic #early victorian era #gents #described #men in 1840s britain were just like that

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I was reading Utmost Gallantry by Kevin D. McCranie and came across an intriguing line. When Captain Isaac Hull of USS Constitution was fleeing a British squadron in 1812, he passed within gunshot range of a British frigate, but the enemy held her fire. Hull later wrote that the frigate "did not fire on us, perhaps for fear of becalming her as the wind was light."

I immediately remembered that Frederick Marryat wrote something very similar about a ship's guns somehow stopping the wind, and found it in The King's Own: "wind lulled by the percussion of the air from the report of the guns."

This was apparently a genuine sailors' superstition!

Action at Sea: an English and a French Frigate Engaging by Robert Dodd c. 1802 (ArtUK).

I searched Google Books for more references and found one in a late 18th century dispatch to the Admiralty quoted in Memoir of Robert, Earl Nugent: "their guns had so lulled the wind as to leave us little prospect of getting nearer to them."

I can see how, in an era long before smokeless powder, it might seem like firing large guns made the wind die down as the combatants were enveloped in clouds of smoke.

@ltwilliammowett have you heard this one?

#timezone reblog #to be deleted

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love a lighthouse love a tall rocky coastline

#op same #lighthouse #art #the sea