‘NOAH’S ARK on Mount Ararat’ (1570) by Flemish painter Simon de Myle. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Posted on 01/24/2022 1:51:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Mono, bi, and tri, but they never even tried to build a transreme.
Good one!
ROTF!!!
I think a bigger clipper than that is required for global circumcision. And what do the pipes look like on that Rabbi?
The Percy & Small shipyard is part of the Maine Maritime Museum, by a fortuitous series of events. So I and my wife took the tour. Ticket is good for two days. I spent only one day, would spend two next time.
About 1909, schooners were being fazed out, being replaced by steam ships.
They said these particular schooners were designed to carry freight up and down the east coast. The arrangement of sails was set up for these winds and routes.
They also said the expected life was about 7 to 10 years. They would regularly shipwreck as part of their route.
The Maritime Museum covers a lot of maritime history, not just the schooner part.
Recommended by me, a desert dweller.
Fascinating. I wrote a treatise on Bible numbers. One of the numbers I dealt with was the number 276, which I identify as indicating Satan's kingdom (in the Bible.)
I mention the passage in Acts 27:37 that states that there were 276 souls on the ship carrying Paul to Rome when it shipwrecked. Showing a picture of a common merchant ship plying the Mediterranean at that time, I hypothesize that the number must represent a Biblical 'code' since the ship pictured could not possibly carry that many people plus cargo.
At your mention I read a bit about Lionel Casson. It appears I may have to eat a bit of crow - hopefully with a good fowl sauce. 😕
Anyone get video on their cell phone of the wreck?
You know the rules. Cell phone video on youtube or it didn’t happen.
...the largest single part of the cargo wasover 600165 tons of pepper. Achoo!
Okay, so, my first source was “The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean”, and I was continuing my continual reading of the book while waiting for a mushroom burger (delicious, btw, as were the fresh-made potato chips that came on the side). Took a minute to locate and re-read the info about the pepper cargo, and noted above the actual figure.
Then I poked around in one of the links, turned out to be a PDF of a scholarly paper about the cargo. The figure works out to 544 tons, sez here:
[snip] Some 20,500 talents of 95 Roman pounds each correspond to more than 625 tons, 544 of which (87%) was pepper*. Even if the weight of the 80 containers of Gangetic nard was relatively modest, it is clear from this reappraisal that the weight of the rest of the cargo would be enough to qualify the Hermapollon as a ‘very big’ ship in the eyes of the traders of the Graeco-Roman world. [/snip]
Playing Sudoku on the Verso of the ‘Muziris Papyrus’
https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/IndOc-Gulf/MuzirisPapyrus-Romanis2012.pdf
I’ve got that book!
Sorry, but cell phones only go back to 1928 or so, and they didn’t come with phones until later. :^)
https://www.google.com/search?q=cell+phone+time+travel
It’s dynamite, IMHO. I’m just not the reader I used to be.
That’s just what they want you to believe.
You know anyone without a cell phone?
I don’t know anyone without a cell phone.
That means no one has ever been without a cell phone!
See? I can do science too.
Maybe I missed it, but the documentary didn't mention the Wyoming's life-sized, white skeleton (hull) sculpture that is located on the museum property, on the very spot where the ship was built.
As "the longest confirmed wooden ship in history", the Wyoming is analogous to Noah's Ark.
And while Noah's Ark was a box [Hebrew תיבה], not a schooner, Wyoming is the shape of a box.
What's in a name..
The last picture on this page is a nice view of the sculpture. From the coordinates on that link, it's a short hop over to a satellite map view.
Notice the streets at the corner location of the bowsprit of "the longest confirmed wooden ship in history".
Percy & Small *is* the Mars 2020 mission.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." :)
‘NOAH’S ARK on Mount Ararat’ (1570) by Flemish painter Simon de Myle. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Apparently a box can be any shape.
Imagine the service coverage problems they must have had.
“The new GPR data shows parallel lines and angular structures 8 to 20 feet down,” claim the team on their project website. “These parallel lines and right angles below the surface are something you would not expect to see in a natural, geologic formation.”
Funny how the iconic horse of Wyoming's Bucking Horse and Rider became identified as Steamboat.
And when you have to cross the sea, the symbol of Wyoming is the horse and rider that was tossed into the sea. Then they ended up on a quarter.
Exodus 15:20-21 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
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The practice of tossing coins into fountains likely began in ancient times, when people thought spirits lived inside them. If a person passed by a fountain, well or other water source without tossing in a coin, he or she would surely be followed by a bad luck. The tradition evolved into a more personalized act, and people began making wishes as they tossed coins into fountains and wells. Some coins are thrown into fountains in the hope the coin-bearer will be able to return to the fountain in the future. Whatever the reason, throwing a coin into a fountain is a practice seen all over the world.
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What happens to coins people throw into fountains to wish?
Now *that's* planning ahead:
They didn't call her Miriam the Prophetess for nothing! :)
Another perspective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given
[snip] Ever Given has a gross tonnage of 220,940; net tonnage of 99,155; and deadweight tonnage of 199,629 tons at design draught. The ship’s container capacity is 20,124 TEU. [/snip]
Meanwhile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic
[snip] Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). Her total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m). She measured 46,329 GRT and 21,831 NRT and with a draught of 34 feet 7 inches (10.54 m), she displaced 52,310 tons. [/snip]
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