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#donner party #wuh oh!

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Barquentine Antigua and Barque Europa in the Arctic and Antarctic, by Jan Erik Waider

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Seth Barlow's Journal made for his own amusement aboard the Brig Nancy under command of Captain Nathan Briggs, covering a cruise from New York to Norway and on to Ireland March 26, 1810 to May 20, 1811.

In this journal Seth wrote about his life aboard, the weather and all the things he saw, it also includes many hand drawn images of various types of ships, fish, whales, porpoises and birds.

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New Bedford: Snowfall on Central Wharf, by John Stobart (1929-)

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A blue and white naval mess plate, c. 1840

These plates were part of Mess 1 and in fact from the 1830s onwards the square wooden plates were replaced by normal tableware, although initially these were only issued to certain flagships or ships of the line. Only later were they issued generally.

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Viennese vermeil and enamel wine Nef, after Herman Bohm, circa 1890

This one is made in two parts, the finely detailed masts, rig, crow’s nests, anchor, and figures executed in detailed vermeil, the sails enameled with allegorical panels, the whole supported by an oval enameled bowl form stand, raised on a gilt figural pedestal base depicting Neptune with trident and fish, the conical base with enamel figural scenes and incised with a scrolling border.

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Galina Egorenkova

#polar exploration

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Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, trapped in ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915.Credit… Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, via Getty Images

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These are a few more drawings made by Captain Owen Stanley on his artic expedition under the Command of Captian George Back with HMS Terror 1836-1837

#age of sail #polar exploration

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Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) / Oceanography. Marine biological programme and other zoological and botanical activities. Macquarie Island Party. Plate XII. 1 / Harold Hamilton

Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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A hand-painted pearl shell on timber stand with the Clipper Orontes, made by a Sailor 19th century

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Illustrations by Fridtjof Nansen for his book Nord i tåkeheimen: utforskningen av jordens nordlige strøk i tidlige tider (English title: In Northern mists: Arctic exploration in early times), 1911

#polar exploration #fridtjof nansen

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June 12, 2022 - A polar Pride Parade on the South Pole! [source]

#NICE

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Nov 21 1918 “A Royal Marine bugler and a naval rating with the dog, mascot of the British battleship HMS Barham”

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happy april 22nd ✌️

#franklin expedition

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i don’t know what a boat is

#yes. #age of sail

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A Sailor made scrimshaw toy, with movable boat, sail and waves, mid 19th century

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