nautical
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Britain’s Sure Shield Is A Man With A Big Beard.
Britain’s Sure Shield
Postmarked 15th February 1915
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Cunard Captain, 1901
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What iceberg?
Captain Edward John Smith, of a little known ship called the Titanic.
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Captain Cameron of the Teutonic [White Star line]. Yes I have a thing about captains..who doesn’t?
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A different William Nicholson – Capt. William Nicholson Jeffers on deck of USS Monitor, by James River, Va., 1862 http://mredmonitor.blogspot.com/
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the tail of a large sea-gull
Very nice, reminds me of William Nicholson’s work as the Beggarstaff Brothers – a postcard of which sits on my wall. Talking of which….
… But he fortunately saved his life by laying hold of the tail of a large sea-gull…
Wiliam Strang, from The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, London, 1895.
(Source: archive.org)
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Serenading a penguin
Piper Kerr serenading a penguin, 25 March 1904. Image from the second voyage of William Speirs Bruce’s Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. “Bruce dressed up Gilbert Kerr, the ship’s piper, in full Highland gear and got him out on the ice and produced a penguin,” said David Munro, [of the Scottish Royal Geographical Society]. “The idea was they were going to play it jigs, strathspeys, reels, slow marches, etc, and see if the penguin had any reaction. “It stood unmoved. Of course, it’s largely unmoved because it’s tied to the foot of the piper.”