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20/09/2024

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20/09/2024

Sailing Vessel Alvei transiting the Cape Cod Canal today. According to their website... this schooner started her life as a 92-foot steel cargo boat! It was originally built as a herring drifter in Scotland back in 1920.

📷 by S. Gray

18/09/2024

⛵🌅 Where history meets the horizon. Imagine the tales these ships could tell!

Until the 14th century, there were only ships with one mast and one sail on this mast in Europe. In the middle of the 15...
18/09/2024

Until the 14th century, there were only ships with one mast and one sail on this mast in Europe. In the middle of the 15th century, ships with three masts began to be built. Caravels, carracks and galleons began to be built in Portugal and Spain. The "age of the sail" has come.

At first, one sail was put on each of the masts. But already in the 16th century, three sails on the mainmast (central), two to three sails on the foremast (forward) and two sails on the mizzen-mast (aft) became the norm. In the 16th century, a bowsprit appeared - an inclined mast on the bow of a ship. A small straight sail was put on it, which was called a "blind" and served mainly for maneuvering into harbors. At the end of the 17th century, oblique sails - cleavers - were placed on the bowsprit [4].

Oblique sails appeared in the 8th-9th centuries on the Mediterranean Sea. Residents of Northern Europe called them "Lati...
18/09/2024

Oblique sails appeared in the 8th-9th centuries on the Mediterranean Sea. Residents of Northern Europe called them "Latin". Such sails made it possible to move at an acute angle to the wind along the winding coasts and among the islands of the Mediterranean. The Latin sail could also be placed across the ship, and then it worked as a straight sail. It was possible to put two Latin sails "butterfly".

16/09/2024

From the website of the Richard Joselin Fine Art Gallery;-
The fruit schooner, Susan Vittery, 1870 by Barry Mason.
Oil on canvas,11 x 18 inches
From the joselin website;-
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Before the age of the steamship, and for a period between the 1840's to the 1880's, a thoroughbred class of fast schooners brought fresh fruit and produce from the Mediterranean and the Azores to Britain.

Many of these little vessels were built in the West Country. These 100-150 ton schooners raced their perishable cargoes every mile to the River Mersey and the River Thames - in days, or a couple of weeks at most!.

The Susan Vittery is shown inbound for Fresh Wharf, just below London Bridge. She was built for the Vittery family of Brixham in 1859 at Dartmouth. Of 130 gross tons, she is shown here in her original two masted rig.

She was re-built in 1918 as a three masted schooner, and re-named "Brooklands" in 1920. She traded throughout the Mediterranean, as well as the deep sea trade to the Caribbean and Newfoundland, before becoming a lowly coastal trader around Britain.

The Susan Vittery had one of the longest trading lives of any sailing ship, before foundering in 1953, shortly after grounding and springing a leak. All on board were saved."
I've previously posted a painting of her by John Chancellor, see here;- https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02ooqsNBeoXxC1erzaFJhuq8NCg94qZamo9bD66fiLvAGBRDkzjhXqszF9zJZyXjfil&id=100085155560377 .

What were the sails of old ships made of?The sail was woven from linen fiber during the period when England, France and ...
16/09/2024

What were the sails of old ships made of?
The sail was woven from linen fiber during the period when England, France and Spain were fighting for dominance on the seas. Fibrous linen is still used for sails, although cotton has replaced it for better quality canvas.

Why are sails needed?Sails are surfaces used to perceive wind pressure, "if the latter serves as a ship's engine. All th...
14/09/2024

Why are sails needed?
Sails are surfaces used to perceive wind pressure, "if the latter serves as a ship's engine. All the devices made on ships to apply wind to it as a driving force make up the armament of a sailing ship.

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