The new Mariners Memorial, on Smeaton’s Pier, in St Ives, has been officially unveiled by Lord and Lady St Leven, in a ceremony conducted by sculptor Tom Leaper stiveslocal.uk/unveiling-ma... #stives #cornwall #fishing #maritimehistory #sculpture

This is not only a vast register of British slave traders and the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807, but also an invaluable database of ships’ voyages.

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1/x A guy from Bruges, Belgium, raced a sailing car along a Dutch beach at a speed nobody had ever travelled on land, helped give the American dime its name, made decimal fractions part of daily life, and wrote a book on how to find a harbour at sea. Simon Stevin A 🧵 #maritimehistory

Denmark: Scott # B49–B52 (1976)

Semi-postal stamp set depicting historic ships tied to Denmark–America maritime history. Complete mint never hinged (MNH) set with full original gum.

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Great podcast episode; fast forward to ca. 35:00 for Peter Moore Writer talking about Thomas Cochrane
#LordCochrane #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory #books

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This rectangular paper dinner menu from the North German Lloyd ocean liner KAISER WILHELM II is dated September 21, 1910. The cover bears an illustration of a cotton plantation scene in the US American south, with two workers riding on horseback. #MaritimeHistory #OTD #OnThisDay #ThisDayInHistory

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1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

The year is 1866 and you would not believe the trouble White folks are causing in Korea, oh and in 1868 too. Check it out before your friends do!

#Koreanhistory #Maritimehistory #19thCenturyhistory #Asianhistory #colonialisminasia #historicaltroublemakers #weirdhistory #ChristianityinKorea

September 17, 1571 , Corfu.
On the eve of the Battle of Lepanto (Ott. İnebahtı)

📷taken from "Die grossen Seeschlachten. Lepanto 1571, FinixComics , 2018

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#galleys #ships #galleyslaves #oarsmen

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September memories from two years ago.

A workshop on maritime history in a truly special setting: the Fenerbahce Gemisi/Ferry Ship Museum, beautifully renovated.

And, this cute cat was also quite fascinated by our papers on maritime topics.😅
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse — A Beacon Along California’s Coast

Rising 115 feet above the rocky shoreline near Pescadero, Pigeon Point Lighthouse has a history as striking as its setting.

#PigeonPointLighthouse #Lighthouses #CaliforniaCoast #MaritimeHistory #CoastalBeauty

How was time kept aboard Titanic and other ships in 1912, and what was the time difference between Titanic and New York on April 15, 1912? Does the recovered chronometer reveal anything regarding this time difference?

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A tragic maritime incident in September 18, 1890:

The Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul undertook a diplomatic mission to Japan in 1890, following Prince Komatsu Akihito’s visit to Istanbul in 1887.
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#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OttomanHistory #Japan #EntangledHistory #Ships #Shipwrecks

The first archaeological examples of Byzantine galleys (37 shipwrecks) of 5th- to late 10th century AD excavated in the ancient Theodosian Harbor located in Yenikapı in Istanbul.
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Bonus: Some hydrostatic analysis for the hull. Whatever those may be.

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