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Tag Archives: Ships & Sailing
1819: Kahikona arrives in Hawai’i
Beginning in the early part of the last millennium, Polynesians explored 16 million square miles of ocean by canoe, navigating by the stars, sun, clouds, ocean swells, and currents; they settled on every habitable island in the Pacific and likely … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Colonialism, Economics, Hawai'i, Kahikona, Prose, Relationships, Ships & Sailing, USA
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1876: The Bowsprit Got Mixed with the Rudder Sometimes.
He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand. —Lewis Carroll: The Hunting of the Snark … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Great Britain, Lewis Carroll, Poetry, Ships & Sailing, The Ocean
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1874: Night Rushed Down from Heaven
Henry Moore: Rough Weather in the Mediterranean (1874) ὣς εἰπὼν σύναγεν νεφέλας, ἐτάραξε δὲ πόντον χερσὶ τρίαιναν ἑλών: πάσας δ᾽ ὀρόθυνεν ἀέλλας παντοίων ἀνέμων, σὺν δὲ νεφέεσσι κάλυψε γαῖαν ὁμοῦ καὶ πόντον: ὀρώρει δ᾽ οὐρανόθεν νύξ. —Odyssey V, 291-294 So … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 8th Century BC, Art, Books, Great Britain, Greece, Henry Moore, Homer, Painting, Poetry, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, Weather
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1871: A Sound Like the Humming of Bees
In order to prove that almost any kind of dream can, with tolerable certainty, be excited by special classes of stimulants, M. Maury caused a series of experiments to be performed on himself when asleep, which afforded very satisfactory results. … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Art, Dreams, Printmaking, Psychology, Ships & Sailing
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1892: Ocean
David James: Seascape, Storm Breakers (1892)
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Tagged 19th Century, Art, David James, Painting, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, The Ocean
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1957: The Mayflower Arrives in New York City
In 1957, a replica of the Mayflower—the Mayflower II—was built in England based on reconstructed blueprints of the ship from an American museum. It set sail for the United States on April 20, 1957 and arrived in New York City … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 20th Century, Airships, Colonialism, New York City, Photography, Ships & Sailing
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1694: An Unusual Incident at Sea
The following story I had from the mouth of the very person who was chiefly concerned in it. I mean the captain of the ship itself. One Captain Thomas Rogers, commander of a ship called the Society, was bound on … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Dreams, Great Britain, Oddities, Ships & Sailing, USA
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