Topchubashi - Sea, War And Beauty

Schooner THOMAS W. LAWSON, 1902. The only 7 masted schooner ever built. Could sail 16-18 nots, faster than steamships of the time at ~ 9 knots. She carried primarily coal and oil in barrels. She sank off the Isles of Scilly, in a storm on Friday, 13th of December, 1907, killing all but two of her crew of eighteen and a harbor pilot. Her cargo of 58,000 barrels of light paraffin oil caused one of the first large marine oil spills. Thomas William Lawson (February 26, 1857 – February 7, 1925)[1] was an American businessman and writer. Lawson, who was intensely superstitious, wrote the novel "Friday the Thirteenth".

Russian Treasure Island - Russian Long John Silver Boris Andreev. My favorite film.

Ivan Kharchenko. First Russian warship "Oryol" ("Eagle")/

It was built in 1668 in the village of Dedinov on the Oka River. Displacement of about 250 tons, length - 24.5 m., width - 6.5 m., draft - 1.5 m., armament of 22 guns, crew of 58 people (captain, 22 sailors, 35 soldiers)

schembart carnival costumes

illustrations from a schembartbuch, depicting costumes from the nuremberg 'schembartlauf' festival from the years 1449 to 1539. nuremberg, c. 1551-1600

source: Nuremberg, GNM, Hs 5664

Clippership Cutty Sark running before the Wind, by John Stobart (1929-2023)