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Blackbeard and his Infamous Pirate Ship, Queen Anne's Revenge ancient-origins.net/history-famous…

KV Heimdal har i det siste kommet over fiskebåter som fisker på Finnmarkskysten som har glemt å slå på kanal 16 (Nødkanalen). – Av hensyn til egen og andre menneskers og båters sikkerhet må Nødkanalen være på, den er påbudt å ha på hele tida nettopp av sikkerhetshensyn.

On May 21, 1891, the lumber schooner Thomas Hume and its crew of seven sailed out of Chicago, into a spring storm, never to be seen again. ancient-origins.net/history-import…

Port Flavia, #Sardinia ancient-origins.net

KV Tor bistod i går kveld/natt, tråleren Rypefjord ifm slep fra området Gullfaks A (ca 80nm av kysten). En krevende operasjon i 20 m/s fra NV og bølgehøyde på 6 m. Fartøyet overleveres sivile aktører ila dagen! BZ

Sea silk is a highly-precious fabric that is so rare only one woman left on earth knows the secret to its creation. ancient-origins.net/history-ancien…

According to Scandinavian mythology, the Kraken is a horrifying giant sea creature said to be one mile long. Stories generally describe it as a terrifyingly enormous octopus or squid like creature that attacks ships. ancient-origins.net/news-myths-leg…

Located in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, are a set of small and uninhabited rocky islands with a curious history. One of the islands, Eilean Mor, was the setting of a great historical mystery – the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1900. ancient-origins.net/unexplained-ph…

Catching a Mermaid (1883) ⚓️ by James Clarke Hook. Children scramble at the water's edge in an attempt to “catch” a ship's figurehead w/ rope. A mermaid on a ship’s mast served as a talisman for fair weather - as the sight of a bare-chested woman was said to calm turbulent seas.

Between the 1860s-1890s, father-and-son glassworkers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka created thousands of anatomically correct models of marine invertebrates. They're so delicate it could be mistaken as a real sea creature. trib.al/e0oi0gM