See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt for boats or ferries takes me to the days of sail...
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| The Norwegian Training Ship 'Christian Radich |
It says on the back "one of the last square three-masted sailing ships still crossing the oceans". That statement is still true since this card was sent from Philex France in 1982. The stamp shows sailors setting the sail on the Christian Radich.
In more testing conditions here we have "Making the sail fast near Cape Horn swaying on the footrope". Photographed by Alan Villiers in 1929 who first went to sea aged 15, described as writer, adventurer photographer and mariner he said "There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does."
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| The 'Iquique' by Herbert Barnard John Everett |
Another lover of the sea, John Everett, his first sea journey was working his passage on the Inquique bound for Australia in 1898, a prolific artist of seascapes.
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| 1983: Old Ships on the Faroe Run |
From sail to steam here is the steamship Laura used as a post boat between Denmark, the Faroes and Iceland
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| London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) Railway Poster |
To the calmer waters of Morecambe Bay a steamer heads to the port of Heysham from Northern Island painted by Norman Wilkinson in 1932. This is the 'other side' of the bay to me.
4 comments:
The billowing sails are awesome and the swells of the sea are mesmerizing. But nothing would terrify me more than to be out in it!
I like your Morecaambe Bay view.
great collection of big boats. Love the first one.
A few of those make me seasick just looking at the wild seas! I've never been much for boats. Beaches, sure. Not out on the water though.
It was a bit more challenging to be a sailor in the old days, wasn't it?
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