#oliver hazard perry

[lucybellwood]

A while ago Falynn K. asked this question on Twitter:

"So on a tall sailing ship you have the mast, and you have the yards across it--is the yard/spar actually attached to the mast, by like i dunno, a pin or something, or is it strictly roped/lashed to it?"

This is a totally reasonable question! A lot of folks who haven't sailed square riggers might think that the yard stays put, but in fact it needs to move up and down the mast so the sails can be fully set. (Y'know how everyone's always talking about halyards? They literally haul the yard up. You're welcome.)

So to answer the question: yards are held loosely to the mast by a looped line strung with large wooden beads called a parrel. The beads roll up the mast as the yard is raised and lowered. Here's a drawover that hopefully clarifies a little:

Once you start explaining things about tall ship anatomy it's hard to stop, so there's a bit more context for how the sails work:

(These are pages from my comic A Week at Sea with OHP, which you can read online here or grab as a print minicomic here.)

Hope this is helpful!

#boat stuff #tutorials #ship mechanics #age of sail #art tips #tall ships #square rig sailing #oliver hazard perry #tall ship #sail training

[clove-pinks]

DON'T GIVE UP THE BOOP!

#oliver hazard perry #boop

[venicepearl]

"Cyrus Tiffany in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 13, 1813," mural -  Martyl Langsdorf + Carol M. Highsmith

The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the shore of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh. It was one of the biggest naval battles of the War of 1812.

#Battle of Lake Erie #Battle of Put-in-Bay #Oliver Hazard Perry #Cyrus Tiffany #american history #XIX century #Martyl Langsdorf #Carol M. Highsmith #mural #art #arte

[scoop16]

Ohio Statehouse, 4.29.22

#ohio statehouse #columbus ohio #abraham lincoln #oliver hazard perry #ohio #ukraine #pysanka

[cwroelle]

Stages of ship building…

#wire #drawing #sculpture #art #line #ship #oliver hazard perry

[ltwilliammowett]

How to cross a sandbar - The principle is based on that of camels used by the Dutch to get large ships across shallow waters. 

#naval history #commodore oliver hazard perry #1813 #war of 1812 #age of sail

[lonestarbattleship]

USS Underwood (FFG-36) underway during sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean.

Date: May 5, 1983

NARA: 6368978

#USS Underwood (FFG-36) #USS Underwood #Oliver Hazard Perry Class #Guided Missile Frigate #Frigate #warship #ship #sea trials #May #1983 #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #my post

[benjhawkins]

Hello My Beloved Local Friends!

Windjammer Days is coming up next week, and there are some opportunities to see some really neat ships, including the only two Arctic sailing vessels still afloat— the Ernestina-Morrissey (formerly Effie M. Morrissey) and the schooner Bowdoin!

Ernestina-Morrissey will be in dry dock until August 1st, while Bowdoin will be in town Sunday the 26th and Monday the 27th! Check it out!

#arctic exploration #sailing #no Lynx this year but Oliver Hazard Perry is coming!

[spockvarietyhour]

Arleigh Burke-class USS Bainbridge (played by sister ship USS Truxtun), Wasp Class USS Boxer and Oliver Hazard Perry-Class USS Halyburton, Captain Phillips (2013)

#Captain Phillips #USN #USS Bainbridge #USS Truxtun #USS Boxer #USS Halyburton #warship #Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer #Wasp Class #Oliver Hazard Perry Class #Destroyer #Amphibious Assault Ship #Frigate #captainphillipsedit #GIF #my gifs #Danny watches Captain Phillips #Hide and Queue

[enriquemzn262]

If you think the US Navy giving up on the brand new Littoral Combat Ships was bad, you don’t know about that time the navy retired the Mk 13 missile launcher, which was the main weapon system of the Oliver Hazard Perry class, effectively neutering an entire 20-odd fleet of ships, turning them into oversized ASW corvettes for their last 10 years in service.

The funniest thing about it being how on some ships, said system was replaced by a fucking machine gun.

#america #navy #warship #frigate

[judgemark45]

The U.S. Navy guided missile frigates USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7), USS Antrim (FFG-20) and USS Jack Williams (FFG-24) underway.

[muttball]

U S Brig Niagara

The Flagship Niagara is one of the most historically authentic tall ships in the United States. As an accurate reproduction of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s victorious flagship from the War of 1812’s Battle of Lake Erie, the ship represents both Pennsylvania and her homeport of Erie in ports throughout the Great Lakes.

#brigs #sailing vessels #tall ships #niagara #u s brig niagara #visit erie #muttball

[clove-pinks]

#it's. it's supposed to be. #oliver hazard perry #RIP commodore perry #polls

[leebrontide]

Hello random stranger I don’t even follow! I grew up on Lake Erie and we have a storm hag and I am so excited to talk about her! Mostly she’s from like the war of 1812 and partially forgotten about, but she’s said to cause storms that take down ships so she can feast on sailor flesh. She has a spooky little theme song but by the time you hear it it’s too late and she’s already next to your ship about to pull you under. Which like, you’d think then that we wouldn’t know the song but it’s:

Come into the water, love, dance beneath the waves

Where dwell the bones of sailor lads inside my mossy cave

She’s said to live in a cave under presque isle, which does not make sense because it’s a sand bar full of swampy lagoons, but also there’s a rip current medium often on the beach side so arguably she’s still out there sucking down souls. I’m just saying there’s bluffs on the other side of the bay that seem more reasonable as a place to find caves. But like also historically during the war of 1812 (but really 1813) Oliver hazard Perry’s fleet spent the winter in misery bay, which is sort of toward the end of presque isle, and they were very cold and hungry. I do also like to think that the people that fall through the ice dunes and die in winter are her victims. Maybe also the people that snowmobile on the ice too far into spring and go under. Then again she probably can’t be blamed for every kind of stupid death that happens.

Anyway apparently her name is Jenny Greenteeth, which makes it pretty clear that she’s an English import at least in name, but I love her.

Also, in case you don’t already know, Lake Erie is shallow which makes the currents weird and there’s like, so many shipwrecks. It’s warmer than the deeper lakes so they aren’t as well preserved as the ones in Lake Superior or anything, but there are genuinely a nuts number of them. Also there’s at least one ghost ship, the dean richmond. There’s this whole area called the Lake Erie quadrangle that they’re thinking about protecting federally because there’s so many shipwrecks? Like, beyond a Bermuda Triangle amount. But on the bright side, it doesn’t have as much of a plane crash history as the Lake Michigan triangle!

Also there are some giant goddamned sturgeon in that lake, and if you feel the need to go mermaid tail/person body with the mermaid thing I recommend a long twisty sturgeon tail and body! I forgot what this was for in my excitement to tell someone about my girl Jenny Greenteeth, but have so much fun!

THIS is what I'm talking about!

#great lakes mermaids #great lakes lore #this is the good shit #this person understands

[captain-price-unofficially]

Damaged by a mine in the Persian Gulf, the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) is transported by MV Mighty Servant 2 from Dubai to Newport, Rhode Island.

#naval #Iran-Iraq War #Cold War

[pathfinderswiftpen]

Going through my old photos and found some of my aunt's genealogy stuff and I have distant relations named William Williams and Daniel McDaniel XD

One relation died at Vicksburg, another at Gettysburg in the american civil war (I've been there; very chilling)

And apparently OLIVER HAZARD PERRY?!?

#personal