The last episode of the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast:
“The Ports That Made Britain: Exeter”
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@guel-sen.bsky.socialThe last episode of the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast:
“The Ports That Made Britain: Exeter”
@bartgonnissen.bsky.social1/x In 1933 a crewed schooner picking through Arctic ice was overtaken by a ship with nobody at the helm. Ghost ships speak to the imagination, and most are fiction. This one is real, and she drifted for 38 years. This is the story of the SS Baychimo. #maritimehistory
@guel-sen.bsky.socialThe Ottoman Admiral Seydi Ali Reis (d. 1562) wrote his book in 1557 Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries) on his naval exhibition among others in the Indian Ocean in 1553-1556. Here is the English translation by Ármin Vámbéry 1899.
@journalmaritime.bsky.socialCheck out Emilia Syväsalmi's article 'Excitement and prey: Captains’ wives and the experience of marine animals on US whaling ships in the nineteenth century' which was published in February 2022 doi.org/10.1177/0843...
@nmireland.bsky.socialCurator Noel Campbell recently spoke with Currachaí na Sceirí’s Shane Holland about his group’s Slí ár Sinsear – Voyage of our Ancestors, a months long, community project, to row from Ireland to Scotland in a Béal Deirg currach.
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#NMIBlog #MaritimeHistory
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@journalmaritime.bsky.socialWhy not revisit 'Saving souls from the depths: The society for rescuing the drowning (Zhengnitang) in late imperial China' by Ronald C. Po which was published as part of our February 2026 issue of IJMH
@guel-sen.bsky.socialThe port city of Cerasonte (Giresun) on the Black-Sea coast in early 18th century.
From J. P. de Tournefort: Relation d’un Voyage du Levant, 1717.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE DD-2987 (6554)
@bartgonnissen.bsky.social1/x The strangest job at sea in 1875: a man in a gilded salon, hand on a valve, eyes on a spirit level, keeping a 180 ton room level while the ship rolls around it. England built a Channel ferry around that job. She wrecked two piers and a man's pride. Meet the SS Bessemer. #maritimehistory
