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#art#ai art#aiart#clipper ship#black sails#dark fantasy#fantasy#storm#crimson#dark#ocean#pirates#pirate ship#pirate
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Clipper Ship "Red Jacket" – In the ice off Cape Horn, on her passage from Australia, to Liverpool, August 1854, by Charles Parson, 1855
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Beautiful Square Rigger! Flying her “studding sails”.
A studding sail, or stun'sl, is an extra sail on a square rigged vessel for use in fair weather. It is set outside the square sails, using stun'sl booms which run out along the yards.
More Cow Bell!!
#sailing#sail#age of sail#clipper ship#square rigger#square rigged#tall ships#shipping#sailing life#sailing ship#vieformidable#design#architecture#interior design#art#photography#fashion#foodporn#interiordesign#océan#ocean life
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@javertisgay's post about polar disaster themed bathroom décor inspired me to share this photo of the actual wall art I have hanging in my bathroom—a print of the clipper ship John Trucks*, a vintage postcard of the polar exploration vessel Endurance trapped in the ice, and an antique stamp advertising Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes.
*Trashpicked for me by a coworker, but I later found out the ship met its end when it struck ice and sank.
#about me#for real this time#nautical decor#nautical#wall art#gallery wall#vintage decor#antique decor#nautical aesthetic#age of sail#clipper ship#polar exploration#maritime disasters#shipwreck#maritime
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Cutty Sark (1869)
Visiting the Cutty Sark and thinking about big lad James Fitzjames and how he probably had to duck his head all the time on ships. It all seems to be made for somebody of my height (1.62 m).
#age of sail#cutty sark#merchant navy#james fitzjames#victorian#greenwich#royal museums greenwich#clipper ship#19th century
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"Outward bound from Bermuda, clippers old and new pass at sea", photograph by Henry Clay Gipson for National Geographic, February 1939
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in other news,,
#kai rambles#shipping industry#shipping history#bbc#bbc news#cargo ships#cargo ship#sailing ship#sailing ships#im just#like i get that sails arent entirely reliable since they depend on wind#but like#wind powered engines on a ship is just#what#im just dying at that headline honestly#clipper ship#clippers#medium clippers#the ship i chose is a clipper ship for context#its the antelope of boston#antelope of boston#clippers were a type of sailing ship designed primarily for speed rather than like cargo space#but with the invent of medium and extreme clippers the minor issue of limited cargo space was solved#clippers were go-to ships for a lot of the 1800s but theyd died out by 1870ish because of the invent of steam ships and the opening of#the suez canal in 1863 (? is that right?)#theres like maybe 2 of them that still survive. i know one is either in a museum or a museum ship#idk about the other. i cannot remember#anyway enjoy my mini lesson of shipping history in the tags of this dumb meme lmao#oh and also the picture of the antelope i used is a painting by henry fitz lane#shipposting
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whats a clipper ship and why is it better (i assume) than other ships and why is it important to the story. they never made me read moby dick in school so I'm genuinely interested
HELLO HELLO imback on my PUTER so i can type so so fast SO FIRST OF ALL genuinely clipper ships are not important to moby dick at all lmao 💀i just like them cos theyre the fastest sailing ships ever so uhh quick breakdown
clippers are the product of american shipbuilders putting a packet ship-esque build on a larger merchant ship
a packet ship is a sort of ship that was small and fast, used specifically for trips from america's east coast to england, usually liverpool. these fuckers were the fastest ships when they were built, and many many sailors died on their voyages bc the captains tried to make em fast as possible
so. we've got tiny fast ship. we've also got large slow merchant ships used in britian for the china and india trade. we've got a man (donald mckay) who rlly likes building ships and is good at his job. puts a packet-esque build on a large-scale ship
for context: the british ships were referred to as 'kettle-bottoms' cos they had flat bottoms that were built mostly to avoid stupid tonnage laws (that the british put in place) (everybody fuckin hated the tonnage laws) and the clippers had a much more streamlined bottom & a differently shaped rudder. they also carried a fuckton of sail, had 3 mainmasts and around 4 sails on each of those
SO the clipper was built. first used for shit like the china trade in the 1840s, then later on until around 1855-56 used as transportation to california for the gold rush. theyre most commonly recognized for the gold rush stuff cos they had to swing round cape horn every single time & that place is fucked UPP for sailing
so these babygirls are the fastest sailing ships ever built (the most notable one technically being the lightning, she was very VERY fast) (my favourite being the sea witch, from when the clippers were still kinda in Prototype Mode)
so yeah these speedy fucks kind of heralded in the end of the age of sail. they were built, had their beautiful and sexy and fleeting run, and then everything turned to motTHER FUCKING STEAM SHIPS FUCK FUCK PISS SHIT
and uhhh that is most of it LMAO but the ships used in the whaling industry were. just called whaling ships 💀💀or smth. ive been trying to find more info on them & on whaling but the most ive found is a 100-pg book of whaling anecdotes which are GOOD but dont tell me anything abt the ships they sailed on other than that the people who hunted whales up north were the ones who invented the crows nest!!!!!!!! auaugh!!!!!
& take all this w a grain of salt bc im fully j dragging it from my memory of arther h clarks book on clippers. im onlhy in the beginning stages of reading clippers: greyhounds of the sea (which has MUCH more information!! very pog) so. that is how it is lmao. unironically thank u so much for asking this im having the timeof my life rn :)
#clipper ship#clipper ship tumblr#cmon guys we can make this a thing !!! please#sailing ship#age of sail
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It seems like a lot of the windjammers made after the 19th century ended that were for carrying cargo or fishing or other actual work rather than being racing boats or pleasure yachts were made in Germany. I wonder if that was because of that landlocked country's ongoing difficulties in acquiring oil.
#history#age of sail#clipper ship#windjammer#barque#schooner#commerce raider#merchant marine#german empire#petroleum#industrial revolution
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I made another trip to the Maine Maritime Museum today to visit this beautiful exhibit of a very beautiful shipwreck: the remains of the clipper ship, Snow Squall.
Now keep in mind, she's about 12 ft by 36 ft (3.5 m by 11 m) in size.
(Also please open the photos for better quality.)
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Look at the miscellaneous
Look at the miscellaneous
After we realize we have seen, we sometimes teach ourselves the experience by giving it a name. The publisher George Stacy taught experience to other people for a living, and one day in about 1860 he made it his business to jot down some helpful ideas about an item newly visible then. You might call it American scenery, he suggested, and after that specifically clipper ship with a catalog number…
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John Hogan's Journey to America - Part 2: Liverpool to the Florida Keys
We left young John Hogan in Liverpool a week (and 175 years) ago. After his arrival from Dublin, he walked the docks and scanned the ships waiting for cargo and preparing to sail. There among them was the Forfarshire, on which he had already engaged his passage to New Orleans. The sight of it was a let-down:
She was a wide, large, dirty, heavy-looking ship. Her sails were anything but snow white,…
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#Azores#clipper ship#Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph#Florida Keys#Liverpool#nautical distances#Tortugas
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City of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
One of only two of the original clipper ships still in existence, City of Adelaide celebrates her 160th birthday this year. Built in 1864 specially to carry emigrants for the growing colony of South Australia, she ended up spending much of her later life on the Clyde. Despite a chequered history including sinking twice and being colonised by pigeons, she has been moved to her namesake city and is now open to the public and undergoing restoration work. The aim is to fully restore one side and illustrate different eras in her story, while conserving the other side as it is now.
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