life at sea is better

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  • 21 Feb
    2011
  

  HMS Surprise crew practising setting sail while docked.

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  • #hms surprise
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• • 24 Feb
    2011

  Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander

  In stick figures.

  See also Part 2 (1, 2)

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• • 25
  • 27 Feb
    2011
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  fuckyeahageofsail:

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• • 22
  • 7 Mar
    2011
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  creative-license:

  A sloth on the HMS Surprise.

  this makes me inordinately happy.

  :D I love our sloth! Took this picture in 2008. He had a red shirt in 2009 so he could match the rest of the Sail Crew.

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  • #hms surprise
  • #RL
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• • 13 Mar
    2011

  The ADMIRAL has invited you to dinner.

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• • 1
  • 23 Mar
    2011
  

  Cover for Patrick O’Brian’s Letter of Marque, by Geoff Hunt.

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  • #nautical art
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• • 1
  • 28 Mar
    2011

  Gunnery Practice

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• • 6
  • 1 Apr
    2011
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  Haha, made this after discovering the many many things that are wrong with this picture…

  Of course, it’s the main picture they use for the posters. Of all pictures they could have used. It was especially embarrassing having a huge wall-sized poster of it aboard the actual Surprise. It’s gone now, thankfully. Replaced with a new half gun deck! Huzzah!

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About

Hello, there! My name's Katherine. I work at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, where I get to sail some lovely ships. Here I post about my adventures aboard Star of India, Surprise, and Californian, as well as an array of other nautical things. Enjoy!