Janissary's Sword (Janitscharenschwert) Mod. 1729. Saxony. Introduced By Augustus The Strong, Who Had

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The Pole Star by Luis Ricardo Falero (1885)

March 28 is the World Historian's Day. Historians! Let's change the past for the better!

The white ship, by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)

Soviet marine artist Evgeny Voishvillo (1907-1993). Tea clipper "Thermopylae". "Marine Fleet Magazine" No.8, 1981

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".