Vilhelm Melbye (1824–1882) (attributed to) — Shipping off the Eddystone Lighthouse
2 inked shipmates of the US Navy The older one has some pretty girls on his arm.
Sea Scout Don Crews at helm of Pinta, Balboa, 1937
Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified sailor, c. 1850′s.
Source: Heritage Auctions.
“It was now the fifth sister’s turn; her birthday happened to be in the winter and so she saw what the others had not seen on their first visit. The water looked quite green and great icebergs were swimming around in it, each of them looked like a pearl, she said, and yet they were far bigger than the church towers humans built. They appeared in the most remarkable shapes and glittered like diamonds. She had sat down on one of the largest and all the sailing ships, in fright, gave her a wide berth, where she sat letting the wind play with her long hair; but later in the evening the sky became overcast, there was thunder and lightning, while the black sea lifted the great blocks of ice high up and let them gleam in the red lightning. The sails were taken in on all the ships, and they were in fear and dread, but she calmly sat on her swimming iceberg and watched the blue stroke of lightning zigzag down into the gleaming sea “
Hánykódnak a hajók,
Sűlyednek a pokolra,
Az árboc és vitorla,
Megtörve, tépve lóg.
“ The Mermaid Parade – June 16, 2018 “ … Poster by Sarah Beetson
(Source: coneyisland.com)
“ A Sailor’s Mermaid “
(Source: mystro2)
The deep sea feather star may not have the fastest form of locomotion—but it’s possibly the prettiest!
Thank you to our colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for this beautiful footage! Find out more about the life in the deep sea of Monterey Bay: https://mbayaq.co/2sAzy5e
Tram house boat on the Desna River, Ukraine.
(photo: Sergei Rzhevsky)
“ Riding the Bow Wave “
(Source: resistancecoefficient)
Babboon, 18 June 1888
Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
LC-D4-4963