Asexual Pirates Don’t Want Your Booty

“How’s life?”

Me:

The mammalian desire to stand at the edge of the ocean.

Ocean lockscreens I like to use 💙

The Castaway (Ambroise Louis Garneray, 1783 - 1857)

A few more pictures from my visit to the Col. James M. Schoonmaker, a freighter museum ship that began her life at Great Lakes Engineering Works of Ecorse, Michigan, in 1911. She carried coal on her maiden voyage from Toledo, Ohio to Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

She was actively sailing the Great Lakes until 1980, and of course she was updated and refitted to work for so many decades. But a lot of furniture on board is original: they never bothered to replace her apparently indestructible, very heavy wood furniture from before the Great War. You wouldn't know it was so old. The table and chairs are 1911 orginals, the captain's cabin and few guest rooms are still nicely appointed.

▪︎ Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding.

Place of origin: Great Britain

Date: mid-19th century

Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902), "Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast" (detail), 1870

Tide Pool (1980) by Jeremy Miranda

Shipwreck (Knud Andreassen Baade, 1808 - 1879)

growing up by the sea really makes you understand why sailors were Like That back in the day. yeah the sea is the love of my life and i'm nothing to her but my heart belongs to her and her alone. she's a cruel, uncaring temptress and she wants to steal me away and eat me alive but to die in her cold, dark abyssal embrace would be such a wonderful way to die.

and there be Creatures in there

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Watercolor of HMS Ajax (1798). Unknown author

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London.

by David Baker

Rene Lalique

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