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December 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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boats good, Seaport Museum good
A vintage model ship in a circular bottle, topped with a cork shaped like a globe An old tugboat docked near the East River
August 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Ship
mattsteinglass.bsky.social Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · Aug 20
As is Peru! Holy mother of Lima look at that thing
August 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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14 Aug 1917 // Q-ship HMS Prize (ex German schooner Else) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB.48 in the Western Atlantic, with all 27 crew lost. (Image: painting c1922 by Charles Dixon of the sinking of U.93 by HMS Prize, 30 April 1917, National Maritime Museum) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
Charles Dixon, 'The Q ship, HM Schooner Prize, engaged with the German submarine U93, 30th April 1918' (c1922). The date should be 30 April 1917. HMS Prize was sunk a few months after this event, on 14 August 1917. Royal Maritime Museums, Greenwich: public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. A painting of a three-masted sailing ship at sea with a submarine exploding and heeling over off her port side, on the right of the image. On the left foreground a group of men can be seen in a small boat, cheering.
August 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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15 Aug 1742 // During Admiral Anson's voyage around the world 50-gun HMS Gloucester (launched 1711 and rebuilt 1733-7) was abandoned off Guam and burnt to prevent capture by the Spanish. She was in poor condition and had suffered severe damage in a storm. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
Contemporary model showing 50-gun 4th-rate HMS Gloucester as rebuilt 1733-7 (Gloucester had originally been launched in 1711). HMS Gloucester was abandoned and burnt to avoid capture off Guam in 1742. The model is in the collections of the Science Museum, London. Photograph by Hugh Llewelyn, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons licence BY-SA 2.0.
August 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I'm now obsessed with this image of sailors on the deck of a U.S. Navy gunboat during the Civil War. The guy with the banjo. The guy with the pipe. The guy reading the newspaper. The guy holding a dog.
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June 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Due to rising temperatures the 17th century graves of Dutch whalers buried at Spitsbergen are defrosting and decomposing.
Some unique finds have already being lost for ever.
A thread🧵

Woollen Caps, 17th century, recovered in the 1980s.
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
June 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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skull island, sega sc-3000 (1984) mocagh.org/loadpage.php...
explorers/pirates/seaman off a ship on the sea (you can see in the background) are exploring an island. they have come across an ominous skull-like stone structure with human skulls close by. one of the seaman is holding up a skull and examining it.
June 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I love killing two birds with one stone because I HATE birds
June 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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GREGG WOOLARD

www.greggwoolard.com/works

#artsky #contemporaryart
May 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Searched hat on the whaling museum website and this guy came up first
Whaler with hat and rosy cheeks from whalingmuseum dot org
November 30, 2023 at 1:42 PM
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On deck of a whale ship. From the New Bedford whaling museum archives. Maybe 1880ish
Men, dogs, possibly other animals crowd the deck of a ship. Skins or maybe fish hang from a wooden shelter on deck. Barrels of presumably whale oil are stored under the shelter. On top are extra spars ropes and other materials
December 8, 2023 at 12:25 PM
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Beer beer beer beer beer
May 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The Moby Dick fandom is dying. Retweet if you're a true Dickhead
March 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Gotta click for the full view. Mr. Handsome
Brindle dog in the sun. The shadow from a metal chair is casting across his back. His head is resting in the hand of a person with a blue sleeve
March 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Love when this happens
When the official discoverers of Kotelny island first explored the arctic isle, they found a copper kettle When the first discoverers of uninhabited Macquarie island explored the island, they reported a wreck “of ancient design”. Macquarie lies between New Zealand and Antarctica
March 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
February 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Next up for #HistoricalHearts on #ValentinesDay

A 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest-known animal to ever exist. It was so big, it had to be doused in 1,000+ gallons of formaldehyde before being plastinated by a team at Royal Ontario Museum. More: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/pains...
A photo of a heart belonging to a blue whale.
February 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Thank you ma’am
dhm.bsky.social Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social · Jan 25
No way the Eagles lose after this
February 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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New toy birthday boy
January 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Ghost Ship.

Well it actually isn't, but seeking this beautiful wooden 3-mastered schooner motoring in the fog in the Svalbard archipelago, I had to shoot it.

Landscapes will always remain my first preference, but if something else photogenic pops us, well why not...
#photography #fineart
A 3-mastered schooner motoring on a calm and foggy morning in the Svalbard archipelago.
January 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Mr. Handsome
January 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM