#spanish armada

[ltwilliammowett]

Sinking of one of the ships of the Spanish Armada on the coast, by Théodore Gudin, c. 1849

#naval art #spanish armada #16th century #19th century #age of sail

[bantarleton]

That weird historian thing where you see certain portraits so much in books/TV/online that you sort of forget they're actually real things that exist in the world. Saw the "Armada Portrait" of Elizabeth I in person in Greenwich last month.

#elizabeth i #elizabethan #history #tudor #tudors #the tudors #spanish armada #the spanish armada #16th century #naval history #tall ships #royal

[peggy-elise]

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in Fire Over England 1937 ♥️

#old hollywood #beauty #romantic drama #1930s cinema #historical drama #vivien leigh #laurence olivier #flora robson #spanish armada #elizabeth tudor #tudor england #1580s fashion

[stairnaheireann]

The Grave of the Yellow Men

It’s said that the blood that flows in all of us; every one of us in the country is blood that came from across the sea. Our identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. For centuries, Ireland has been a haven for explorers, settlers, colonialists, navigators, pirates and traders absorbing goods and people from all points of the world. Over the centuries, there was a vast traffic in…

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#&039;The Grave of the Yellow Men&039; #Atlantic Ocean #China #Colononialists #Egypt #Explorers #History #Ireland #Japan #Kilbaha #Kilcloher rocks #Morocco #Navigators #Oriental #Pirates #Portugal #Settlers #Spain #Spanish Armada #Traders #Tunisia

[danskjavlarna]

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From fairy boats to swan boats, bicycle boats to shoe boats, set sail with my collection of vintage boat imagery.

#spanish armada #ship #vintage illustration #illustration

[vox-anglosphere]

'Gloriana', as embodied by Queen Elizabeth I in the Armada portrait

#Queen Elizabeth I #Gloriana #Armada portrait #House of Tudor #Spanish Armada #National Portrait Gallery #Renaissance #1588

[aiyta]

“Well, you say that, now, but there's a young lad up in Pennyburn called Diego. The mother, she's a Derry woman, but the father, he was Spanish. Though not on the scene, by all accounts. According to the mother, he - Diego's father, this is - well, he came over with the Spanish Armada, then cleared off, leaving her to raise the wean on her own, but that story didn't totally add up, was the thing. The problem being that the Spanish Armada landed here in 1588, and that the son, Diego, as she called him, well, he was born more than four centuries later.”

- Uncle Colm, Derry Girls

#iconic #literally top 5 derry girls moment as far as im concerned #just four century pregnancy things #derry girls #uncle colm #derry #spanish armada #diego

[rafamybelovednadal]

Regardless of whatever record Novak is likely to break, there's one particularly significant record he'll never be able to grasp( and shall lose much sleep over it, I'm certain😇)- Rafael Nadal's unparalleled, unmatched and unbeatable record of 938 fics of around 2000 on a03.

An absolutely PhenomeNadal achievement, one that I shall hold on to in these turbulent times.💘💪

Still, there's a very unfortunate lack of Rafa/Spanish armada, marc lopez, feli lopez, David ferrer etc.

Also personally offended by the dearth of rafa and Carlos moya fics, slash or no slash.

Fedal needs no mentioning, but probably will get a separate post lol

#rafael nadal #carlos moya #rafa nadal #marc lopez #spanish armada #tennis rpf #fedal #the insta followers record deserves a mention too lmao #or a separate post altogether

[janesurlife]

I know Ferru...I KNOW!!!!!!

#rafael nadal #david ferrer #spanish armada

[admiralnelsoniii]

What you think? First, second rate, ship of the line? Just some AI creation I'm sure. Looks pretty cool though.

#history #ship of the line #warship #royal navy #spanish armada #sailing ship #age of sail #maritime art #military art #artlovers #artcollector #artwork #art

[persea12]

Colm's boring storytelling distracts hilariously from his amazing stories, which are only registered after the second viewing.

#derry girls #colm #poor diego #supreme interrogation diversion #spanish armada

[ltwilliammowett]

The Spanish Armada, 1588, by Peter Jackson (1930 – 2019)

#naval art #spanish armada #1588 #age of sail

[brianmchenry]

 The Intended Voyage of The Girona

Some incomplete notes:

A work in progress based partly on the sinking of the Spanish Galleass ‘La Girona’ off the County Antrim coast in 1588. The Girona was part of the ill-fated Spanish Armada and foundered on the rocks off Lacada Point as it was headed eastward in the hope of finding refuge in Scotland. There were an estimated 1,300 on board The Girona which had been designed for a crew of 300 and among those were slaves from Central and South America and sailors from two other Armada wrecks, ‘La Rata Santa Maria Encoronda‘ and ‘Dunquesa Santa Anna’*. There were nine survivors.

* La Rata Santa Maria Encoronda had run aground in County Mayo and the survivors marched the 25 miles to where they knew the Santa Anna to be anchored. The crew boarded and the Santa Anna set sail only to be wrecked off the coast of Donegal on the 28th September.

Don Alonso Martinez de Leyva (very much) after El Greco. One of the 1,300 onboard the Girona.

The title comes from a ring found on the wreck site made from conquistador gold which says ‘No tengo mas que dar te’ - ‘I have nothing more to give thee’

Further background reading on The Girona can be found here:

https://www.belfastentries.com/stories/true-stories/girona/

Although The Girona actually sank off Lacada Point (Port-na-Spaniagh) the foreground represents Torr Head which is to the east. Torr Head was the sight of a sixth century cashel and in the 1800′s was important for recording the passage of transatlantic shipping for Lloyds of London.

There was a small salmon fishery at Torr and I remember being taken out in an old US army amphibious truck to see the net and a basking shark that had got caught up in it. There was a shed at the back of the slipway that was full of old US Army equipment reputedly left behind when they pulled out from Derry after the Second World War.

#brianmchenry #Illustration #art #artists on tumblr #La Girona #Spanish Armada #History #torr head #The Girona #North Antrim Coast

[illustratus]

Galleons off the coast, possibly a British ship with captured Spanish vessel by Bernard Finegan Gribble

#england #english #captured #spanish vessel #ship #spanish armada #coast #bernard finegan gribble #galleons #art #painting #history #europe #armada #spanish #spain #war

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1588 – The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English, with some Spaniards slain upon reaching the coasts of Ireland and some survivors remaining.

The English defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines off the coast of France. The Spanish Armada was a powerful fleet of armed ships and transports that tried to invade England. The defeat at Gravelines ended Spain’s hopes of invasion. The failure of the Armada was a great blow to the prestige of Spain, then the world’s most powerful country. Spain remained a major power after the…

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#England #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Queen Elizabeth I #Spain #Spanish Armada #Today in Irish History

[fiction-quotes]

The magical activities of Britain have always been highly organized. Anoyone who doubts this should consider the Spanish Armada and the winds that so conveniently dissipated it – and perhaps further consider why even the most skeptical of historians accepts this convenient hurricane so calmly, as a perfectly natural occurrence. Or the doubter might also consider why Hitler, or Napoleon before him, never got around to invading Britain, and why we accept these facts, too, so easily.

A moment's unclouded thought should persuade anyone that these things are too good to be true. But of course, no one's thought is unclouded, for the very good reason that the organization has, for centuries, developed itself to clouding it and making sure that most people perceive its activities as messy, futile, and mainly concerned with old ladies astride broomsticks.

  —  A Sudden Wild Magic (Diana Wynne Jones)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #diana wynne jones #a sudden wild magic #magic #history #britain #england #spanish armada #secrecy #thoughts #confusion