An interesting look at the history of the brig and brigantine. #history #navalhistory #maritimehistory
Brigs and Brigantines: History and Evolution | Pirate Ship Types
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Dr Gul Sen
@guel-sen.bsky.social
historian, senior lecturer; here mostly maritime history, Ottoman history. also, German local history, hiking https://www.linkedin.com/in/pd-dr-gul-sen-820422212
Don't miss the next presentation in our Distinguished Speaker Series, "Steamboats to Ferries: the Story of the Block Island Boat," by SSHSA Member and Historian Gregory Abbott on October 3 at 10:30 a.m. Learn more about this and other upcoming events at shiphistory.org/events/. #MaritimeHistory
This is not only a vast register of British slave traders and the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807, but also an invaluable database of ships’ voyages. #MaritimeHistory #Ships
Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 21h ago1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.
New York City Docks - c1900s photo taken by Paul W Faust Most of the world’s great ports would have looked similar at the time, with forests of masts. #Ageofsail #NewYork #ships
Academia: a system that requires years of training to be eligible for basic, entry-level positions yet lacks the capacity to provide those positions to over 90% of the people whom it trains.
Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d ago21,627 applications for the Marie Curie early career fellowships.
September 17, 1571 , Corfu. On the eve of the Battle of Lepanto (Ott. İnebahtı) 📷taken from "Die grossen Seeschlachten. Lepanto 1571, FinixComics , 2018 #MaritimeHistory #OttomanHistory #Mediterranean #Corfu #Greece #galleys #ships #galleyslaves #oarsmen
Our September excursion took place yesterday: organized by our Association of Local History, the excursion was entitled “On the Trail of the Bernkastel Winegrowers’ Uprising (Winzersturm)” that took place in 1926. 1/2 📷1) Archive of the Association #localhistory #Mosel #Bernkastel #photography
Sculptor Jürgen Waxweiler opened the doors of his Traben-Trarbach studio to visitors. For many years, J. Waxweiler has contributed to public spaces throughout the city and region with his works of art making his sculptures part of the local landscape. 1/2 📷courtesy J.W. #localhistory #Mosel #art
A view from the ruin of the Castle Grevenburg (built 1350, destroyed 1734) #photography #stunday #Mosel #localhistory
September memories from two years ago. A workshop on maritime history in a truly special setting: the Fenerbahce Gemisi/Ferry Ship Museum, beautifully renovated. And, this cute cat was also quite fascinated by our papers on maritime topics.😅 1/2 #MaritimeHistory #Ship #Vessel #Museum #Cats
A tragic maritime incident in September 18, 1890: The Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul undertook a diplomatic mission to Japan in 1890, following Prince Komatsu Akihito’s visit to Istanbul in 1887. 1/4 #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OttomanHistory #Japan #EntangledHistory #Ships #Shipwrecks
The first archaeological examples of Byzantine galleys (37 shipwrecks) of 5th- to late 10th century AD excavated in the ancient Theodosian Harbor located in Yenikapı in Istanbul. 1/2 #MaritimeHistory #Galleys #Byzantine #Shipwreck
The oldest surviving map of the late Byzantine Constantinople (1422), showing the historical peninsula and harbors by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonte. From:Description des îles de l'archipel, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris #MaritimeHistory #CoastalHistory
A remarkable figure of the Battle of Chesma and the Ottoman-Russian warfare in the 18th c.: Gazi Hasan Pasha of Algeria, the Grand Admiral between 1770 and 1790. In contemporary depictions, he is seen with his sidekick lion! Thank you @will-smiley.bsky.social for the reminder. #MaritimeHistory
Changing the perspective on the Battle of Chesma (1770) between the Ottomans and Russia. No. 23 of the Comic-Book Series Les Grandes Batailles Navales: www.bedetheque.com/BD-Grandes-b... #MaritimeHistory
Just published: my thoughts on Mustafa Aksakal's new book "The War that Made the Middle East," about WW1 and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. The book can be seen as a story about disillusionment with law--constitutional and international--and the rise of authoritarianism.
War, Empire, and Authoritarianism in the Middle East - Legal History
Mustafa Aksakal, The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire (2026).William SmileyMustafa Aksakal’s new book, The War that Made the Middle East, offers a pointed a...
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One of the most interesting texts of Ottoman historiography is now published. A 18th-c. local mufti adapts a Greek history of ancient Athens, blending it with Islamic legends and contemporary names and concepts.
I had taken this illustration from a MAD Magazine issue several years ago, but unfortunately, I lost track of which issue it was published in. Anyway and once again: “Sentenced to the Galleys: Manpower as a Challenge for the Ottoman Navy” (published July 2026) #MaritimeHistory
Proofs just arrived! Book chapter "Transottoman Imperial Courts in the Early Modern Period: Comparing Istanbul and Moscow/Saint Petersburg" written together with Alexander Bauer @sascha06.bsky.social (Mainz). - Stay tuned😊 #OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #EarlyModern
Save the date!! Join us at the Ship History Center or on Zoom for this fabulous talk by Author and SSHSA Member Karen Stone on her book "Shipwreck on the Potomac: Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln's Killer" on 9/12 at 10:30 a.m. Learn more about this & other upcoming events at shiphistory.org/events/.
September's Maritime Matters is out! Featuring events about Portsmouth's naval & literary heritage, Maritime Histories from the Margins conference, podcast on the UN's #OceanDecade, & more. Email pcmc@port.ac.uk to sign up centreforportcitiesandmaritimecultures.createsend1.com/t/y-e-fxno-l...
As admiral of the Ottoman fleet in the Indian Ocean, Piri Reis led successful campaigns in the Red Sea. In 1552, he failed to capture the fortress of Hormuz from the Portuguese and was executed in 1554. The Red Sea and Suez from his Book on Navigation. #MaritimeHistory #IndianOcean #cartography
The last episode of the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast: “The Ports That Made Britain: Exeter” 👉 snr.org.uk/the-mariners... #MaritimeHistory #Ports
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The Ottoman Admiral Seydi Ali Reis (d. 1562) wrote his book in 1557 Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries) on his naval exhibition among others in the Indian Ocean in 1553-1556. Here is the English translation by Ármin Vámbéry 1899. #MaritimeHistory #OttomanHistory #IndianOcean #Navigation
