@shipwreckspod.bsky.socialThis Week In Shipwrecks:
-Virgo Transport 8 ferry
-Treasue in Cádiz port
-Horrors of the Batavia
-Diver's body found
-Bronze Age shipwreck
-German U-Boat leaking TNT
-Mystic Seaport Museum announces Maritime Trades and Foodways Day
shipwrecksandseadogs.com/twis005
#maritimehistory #shipwreck
@shiphistory.bsky.social"It would be impossible for any cyclone to create a storm wave which could materially injure the city." Meteorologist Dr. Isaac Cline, 1891. Founded in 1839 on Galveston Island, the City of Galveston was a thriving seaport community. Read the thread.... #MaritimeHistory
@tadfitch.bsky.socialHere's a sneak preview of our next episode, which our paying supporters on Patreon are already enjoying. Stay tuned for the premiere, coming this Saturday morning, only on The Steam & Splendor Network!
@guel-sen.bsky.socialThe oldest surviving map of the late Byzantine Constantinople (1422), showing the historical peninsula and harbors by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonte.
From:Description des îles de l'archipel, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris
@anthonyburdge.bsky.socialContinuing our Maritime History exploration we go from a visit with Cpt Melville to Captain Robert Randall, founder of Sailors Snug Harbor
#maritime #maritimehistory #sailor #sailors #snugharbor #exploration #history #newyorkhistory #youtube #iphonepro #videos
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@shiphistory.bsky.socialThis booklet listing first-class passengers on the American Line mail steamer ST. PAUL, departing from Southampton, England to New York, NY on #OnThisDay in 1904 is from the Ephemera Collection at the SSHSA Archives.
Learn more about our collections at shiphistory.org/collections/. #MaritimeHistory
@fenken.bsky.social#QuoteOfTheDay: 'a surviving fragment of red sandstone quay near the current Frodsham Mill is likely to have been the cheese-loading quay'
That's right, dear reader. #Frodsham in #Cheshire had a specific #cheese loading quay.
@thoscochrane.bsky.socialA DANGEROUS GAME-THOMAS COCHRANE’S LIFE ON THE EDGE by Peter Moore.
Get a signed copy!
#LordCochrane #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory #books
#TheRealMasterAndCommander
@shiphistory.bsky.socialOur "Refrigeration on Ships" lesson plan introduces students to the history of refrigerated shipping and its impact on the availability of perishable goods. Students engage in an experiment about which materials are the best thermal insulators. Read the thread... #MaritimeHistory
@crusaderproject.bsky.socialGerman Räumboot Altair postwar. Details in ALT. From Facebook Navy General Board.
The R-boats were small well-armed multi-role vessels, capable of sweeping for mines, escort duties, ASW work, general inshore work. They were in active service into the late 1960s. #maritimehistory #navalhistory
@bartgonnissen.bsky.social1/x On a misty Sunday morning in 1942, in the empty middle of the South Atlantic, a cargo ship sailing empty met a German warship. The warship ordered her to stop. She attacked instead. Both ships died that morning. This is the SS Stephen Hopkins, and the duel of 27 September. #maritimehistory
@anthonyburdge.bsky.socialYesterday I visited the resting place of Cpt Thomas Melville, brother of Moby Dick author Herman Melville. This is a small intro into a larger project concerning Sailors Snug Harbor where Thomas was Governor.
@guel-sen.bsky.socialA remarkable figure of the Battle of Chesma and the Ottoman-Russian warfare in the 18th c.: Gazi Hasan Pasha of Algeria, the Grand Admiral between 1770 and 1790.
In contemporary depictions, he is seen with his sidekick lion!
Thank you @will-smiley.bsky.social for the reminder.
@guel-sen.bsky.socialChanging the perspective on the Battle of Chesma (1770) between the Ottomans and Russia.
No. 23 of the Comic-Book Series Les Grandes Batailles Navales:
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@shipwreckspod.bsky.social⚓ Feb 18, 1952: two T2 tankers, the Pendleton & Fort Mercer, snapped in half off Cape Cod hours apart in a brutal nor'easter, triggering one of the Coast Guard's greatest small-boat rescues. New episode is up 🎧 (1/2)
@shiphistory.bsky.socialThis poster features the Royal Mail Line's steamship OHIO, which dominates a harbor scene with two tugs in the foreground and is a lithograph of an original painting by Kenneth D. Shoesmith. Stephen Barrett Chase Collection, SSHSA Archives. #MaritimeHistory
@britotmove.bsky.socialBayport, FL — a small coastal town on the Weeki Wachee estuary, once a 19th-century cotton port that rose in prominence during the Civil War.
britonthemove.com/bayport-flor...
#BayportFL #WeekiWachee #CoastalTown #GulfCoast #HernandoCounty #CivilWarHistory #MaritimeHistory #SmallTownUSA
@r-cordeiro.bsky.socialScituate, Ma Historic lighthouse! Built in 1810 and lighted in 1811! Still standing after all these years of brutal storms of the Northeast! #BlueskyMonday #EastCoastKin
#MaritimeHistory #Ocean #GetOutSide #Peace
