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@thoscochrane.bsky.socialIt is indeed absolute absurd that there is no great memorial to Cochrane in Edinburgh
#LordCochrane #NavalHistory #AgeOfSail #EarlOfDundonald #RoyalNavy #MaritimeHistory #Edinburgh #TheScotsman
@bartgonnissen.bsky.social1/x For twenty years, British yards built a cargo ship that looked like a submarine wearing a wall: rounded sides, a narrow raised spine running fore and aft, almost no flat deck at all. 176 of them. Then the shape vanished completely because a tax rule changed. A š§µ. #maritimehistory
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.socialš£ Call for Papers - Women in Maritime Business. Deadline 1 October. buff.ly/nqtJ04u #WomensHistory #Skystorians #MaritimeHistory #BusinessHistory
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@shipwreckspod.bsky.socialJust released on YouTube:
youtu.be/5QZewUv2B8Y
@shiphistory.bsky.socialThis rectangular paper dinner menu from the North German Lloyd ocean liner KAISER WILHELM II is dated September 24, 1910. SSHSA Menu Collection.
@worldhistory.orgBetween c. 1450 and 1650, demand for spices and other high-value plant commodities became an important catalyst for European maritime expansion.
āš½ Infographic created by Simeon Netchev.Ā
#Spices #Food #Trade #AgeOfDiscovery #History #Maritime #MaritimeHistory
@guel-sen.bsky.social@guel-sen.bsky.socialThe "Harbor of the Galleys" (Kadırga Limanı):
This harbor was the New Harbor (Portus Novus), known also as the Harbor of Julian, and the Harbor of Sophia. It was used to the end of the Byzantine Empire, and also for sixty years after the Ottoman conquest 1453. š§µ1/3
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@bashirahmed57.bsky.socialUK
1981 14p stamp captures fishermen cockle dredging aboard Lindsey II part of special series honouring UKās hardworking fishing communities & century of support for deep sea fishermen.
#GreatBritain #BritishStamps #FishingHistory #VintageStamps #StampCollecting #MaritimeHistory
@shiphistory.bsky.socialJoin SSHSA Archivist Astrid Drew at the Maury Loontjens Memorial Library in Narragansett tonight for a presentation on Historic Ship in Narragansett Bay. Before cars and bridges, ships were the primary method to move both goods and people. #MaritimeHistory
@bartgonnissen.bsky.social1/x On a June morning in 1904, a thousand women and children boarded a paddle steamer in New York for a Sunday school picnic. Within an hour, more than a thousand of them were dead, in a burning ship, in a river, in sight of the shore. The General Slocum. A š§µ #maritimehistory
@guel-sen.bsky.socialHe was the only admiral with a lion by his side!
Source: Elizabeth Craven. A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople (London: G.G.J./J. Robinson, 1789), p. 209.
E. Craven visited Istanbul, among others the grand admiral's residence in April and May 1786.
@shiphistory.bsky.socialDon't miss the next presentation in our Distinguished Speaker Series, "Steamboats to Ferries: the Story of the Block Island Boat," by SSHSA Member and Historian Gregory Abbott on October 3 at 10:30 a.m. Learn more about this and other upcoming events at shiphistory.org/events/. #MaritimeHistory
@goldenageofpiracy.bsky.socialAn interesting look at the history of the brig and brigantine.
@shipwreckspod.bsky.socialāNew episode! SS Caribou: Newfoundland's Deadliest Night. German U-69 torpedoed and sank the passenger and cargo ferry SS Caribou on 14 Oct 1942, killing 136, including 10 children.
#maritimehistory #Canada #Newfoundland #WW2 #WWII #navalhistory #militaryhistory