Another weeks worth of interesting nautical history from Monkey Fist via gCaptain. This week there seems to be a concentration on Russia. There’s also some cool info about tattooing, sea monsters, sailing school ships and salty old restaurants. Enjoy. 🙂
With only the clothes on their backs, 881 Aleuts from nine different island villages were …
Source: Maritime Monday for February 27th, 2017: Spy Vs Spy – gCaptain
The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps | Collage of Arts and Sciences.
Another good one from the Smithsonian this morning. I always thought those old charts were so cool. I really loved the drawings.
Those people really had some great imaginations! 🙂
Lecture Series | Mariners’ Museum.
I only just found out about this lecture series when I read the link on my earlier post on The Project. It will be part of this Lecture Series. It sounds like a pretty cool thing to do if you’re in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
Each lecture has a presentation by the author and a Q & A session afterwards. They have them almost monthly and they pick some good ones. The Project about pirates sounds great. They have one on sea monsters coming up Oct 10 that sounds good too.  🙂
Check the link for more information. The website for the museum is www.marinersmuseum.org . Its FREE! 🙂