In honour of Canadian Forces Day, here are a couple images taken onboard HMCS Margaret Brooke during Op Nanook 2022. #photography #industrialportraits #navy #canadiannavy #sailors #canadianforcesday #EastCoastKin

Bang bang
You shot me down
Bang bang
I hit the ground
Bang bang
That awful sound
Bang bang
My country hit the ground

Everyone in the military is a Nazi scum, too. There were no such distinctions made after World War II.

You are Nazi scum. You can't handle the truth.

JFK - bullet to the head
RFK - bullet to the head
MLK, Jr. - bullet to the head
Adolf Hitler - bullet to the head

General Liar, you're a Nazi, too.

When I left early evening #today the sky was ripe for #rainbows. Views south were #cloudy, north was blue skies w lots of spotty #clouds. I looked around, feeling that stagnant air & threat of #rain. But all I saw on my errands were #sailors. Sailors on the sidewalks, sailors in the Panda Express, FLEET WEEK in midtown, y'all. The world's biggest floating museum is at the end of my street (other way's Times Square!), fourty-sixth yes I still spell it w a U. #FleetWeek #Intrepid #museum #pier

interesting for #sailors: A new study suggests that just 1 minute of exposure to a 100 Hz pure tone at safe sound levels could reduce motion sickness! Published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine on March 25, 2025 https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result-en/2025/04/20250408-01.html #sailing

Couples

Sailor and Girl, Corpus Christi

John Vachon. photographer, June 1943

#VancouverIsland #sailors: I made arrangements to haul my boat for bottom paint. Last Monday they cancelled due the snow, said to come back next week (yes, I and boat were there as scheduled.)

This week I showed up and they had forgotten they had rescheduled my lift. They have rescheduled it again, in 10 days.

I am making plans for if they tell me next time they are not going to lift the boat.

What #boatyard on Vancouver Island would you suggest for a 10 m 1964 #sailboat?

Southwold Sailors’ Reading Room in England

A historic seafront building established as a refuge for sailors to promote moral living and literacy.#museumsandcollections #peace #navy #sailors #section-Atlas
Southwold Sailors’ Reading Room

boston, massachusetts
may 1960

sailors, boston navy yard

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/327548458/

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

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boston, massachusetts
may 1960

aircraft carrier, boston navy yard

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51872519089/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/327549038/

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

Monument als Raiers (Monument to the Raftsmen) in Hortoneda, Spain

These long, lean figures pay tribute to the daring feats of the historical raftsmen of Catalonia.#sailors #rivers #transportation #boats #section-Atlas
Monument als Raiers (Monument to the Raftsmen)

Awesome Futurist Duck – Ep. 48

In which we study an Awesome Futurist Duck, probe negative lands, give the punctuation a shake, and raise a glass in a waterfront pub. Cheers! === If you think you can pencil us bunch of schmucks into your schedule, please click to play…. […]

https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/01/26/awesome-futurist-duck-ep-48/

a heel that won't get stuck in patterns of sewer-gate or uhm, holes in wooden deck-floors on ships maybe? xD

is that a bluberry-pie or rather a seamonster of loch ness/nessie out in the ocean?

A Close Shave on Board an American Battleship

Keystone View Company, 1908

#RussianSailors in the #AmericanCivilWar

Surprised when I came across these photos so researched further ...

The Russia did support #TheNorth during the #CivilWar as a counterbalance to British + French reluctance do so. Russian + US interests coalesced around the prevention of French + British interference in the War. The British decision to declare neutrality opened the possibility of recognition of the South. It was believed France would follow suit.

[Painting] Two Fishermen from Skagen at the Window in the Grocery Store, 1915 | Michael Ancher

@artdesign
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Two fishermen in full working gear – oilskins and sou’westers – gaze out of a window. The incoming daylight illuminates their faces and upper bodies and sets them apart from the otherwise barely lit room.

The play of light on the smooth surface of their oilskin jackets is captured in rough brushstrokes, but their facial features are rendered in rich detail. Their faces frozen in concentration, the two men are staring intently at what is happening outside: everyday village life, the weather or homecoming fishermen?

The paintings by the Skagen artists’ colony around Michael Ancher captured contemplative scenes unrelated to work, and not only the high-adrenaline, laborious and dangerous activity of fishermen and sailors on the coast and the high seas.

Aside from domestic settings, the village pub belonging to Brøndums Hotel – referred to in the title as the “grocery shop” – was an important location for portraying village life.

Skagen artists showed a great fondness for painting interior scenes, which was partly due to the renewed popularity of genre painting from the Dutch Golden Age during the second half of the 19th century. Echoing the influential French art historian Théophile Thoré – who rediscovered the work of the Dutch painter Jan Vermeer – the Skagen painter and art historian Karl Madsen highlighted his outstanding importance for contemporary painting in 1884.

The Danish art historian Emil Hannover boldly undertook a direct comparison between works by Vermeer and Ancher in an exhibition review from 1887.

Although far simpler in structure, the painting “Two Fishermen from Skagen at the Window in the Grocery Store” also reveals parallels to Veneer’s compositional style. Like here, the figures in his paintings are often placed at the window, with daylight streaming in from the side to highlight the materiality of their clothing and the furnishings. KS

#Painting #MichaelAncher #sailors #fisherman

Do #sailors always use #nautical miles rather than kilometres? #NauticalMiles
I ask because I was wondering how long it would take to sail from #Iona to #Ballycastle - apparently about 15 hours; maybe a two-day trip with a short rest at #Islay