Adventures of the Blackgang
Thalassophilia, Nautical History, Culture, and Art
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saikaku safuranko : oranda denpo / Unknown
阿蘭陀傳方 犀角蕃紅花香（さいかくさふらんかう） 絵師不明 1842年
“天保十三壬寅歳 小 三ふらん香 五かんや六しを八わらけて 十分に成? 極上薬”
(via yama-bato)
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1867-1876 China Punch - Hong Kong’s First Cartoon Paper
In April 1867, China Punch, a fortnightly illustrated paper, was published by the China Mail, and conducted by editor W.N. Middleton and others (unfortunately, I do not know who the cartoonists were).
China Punch ran on lines quite similar to its London prototype - the Punch, which was created by wood engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew in 1841. The duo got the idea for the paper from a satirical French paper, Charivari, and in fact the first issued (July 17, 1841) was subtitled ‘The London Charivri’.
The China Punch featured local topics and men in a humorous and effective manner, coded, however with heavy colonial flavor making fun of local Chinese customs and assuming the superiority of British values. Such were met with almost instant popularity among the Western residents and visitors alike in Hong Kong.The paper ceased publication between May 28, 1868 and November 5, 1872, and was permanently closed on November 22, 1876 when Middleton left Hong Kong. The “Twentieth Century Impression of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China” said that since that time no paper of the kind has managed to rival its humorous and its witty caricatures and cartoons.
source: Hong Kong’s First
see also: Puck, or the Shanghai Charivari, Shanghai, Feb 1, 1872
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U.S. brig Perry, American slave ship Martha, off Ambriz June 6th, 1850
Sarony & Co.; Lithographer, 1854
Printed on border: “Lith. of Sarony & Co.”
Written on border: “Angola, Portuguese, West Africa” -
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Suez blockade… In 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the canal, which led to the Suez crisis. During the battle for the Suez the Egyptions sank ships to create a blockade. The canal was of strategic importance as it had become the main passageway for oil to get to Europe. The crisis is seen by some as marking the end of long phase of British imperial history.
- Suez Canal: from crisis to crisis, 7 image gallery on The Telegraph
- see also: aerial view in The Suez Canal Crisis: Events that Shaped Maritime History on marineinsight.com
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The RMS Viceroy of India – P&O Line’s crowning achievement of the 1920s.
Cruise History: The RMS Viceroy of India was an ocean liner that was owned and operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd. of Great Britain. During World War II she was converted to and used as a troopship. The Viceroy of India was sunk in November of 1942 by German U-boat U-407. Her service was succeeded by SS Chusan from 1950 to 1978.
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The P. and O. Pocket Book, 2nd edition (London: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., 1899)
The P. and O. was widely considered the premier shipping line for transportation to India (“a junior branch of the Royal Navy,” according to some).
The little guidebook provided for passengers (first published in 1888) included information on ports of call, essays on countries served, advice for travellers, maps, and meteorological tables.
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Rule Britannia c.1900
in comments:
It’s about the Boers in Transvaal having to accept British rule in South Africa.
C.I.V.: The City of London Yeomanry, also known as the City Imperial Volunteers–posted by paul.malon
Original (2569 x 3383)
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Map: Happy Thanksgiving – Map of Plymouth Bay, the site of the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving originally posted to the BIG Map Blog.
(via bigmapblog-blog)
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Punch, December 31, 1941
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Japanese lithograph, probably showing the Japanese fighting German troops during the conquest of the German colony Tsingtao, China between 13 September and 7 November 1914. - Shobido & Co., Tokyo
The Siege of Tsingtao was the attack on the German-controlled port of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) China during World War I by Imperial Japan and the United Kingdom.
Naval Operations:
17 October 1914 - 7 November 1914
Siege:
31 October 1914 – 7 November 1914Allied victory
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Map attributed to Luís Teixeira (Ludovico Teixeira), a sixteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit, cartographer, and mathematician. In the map Brazil divided into hereditary captaincies (Capitanias Hereditárias), which had previously been used successfully in the colonisation of the Madeira Island.
Teixeira contributed a well-known early map of Japan (Iaponiae Insulae Descriptio) to Abraham Ortelius’s atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. It was the first separate map of Japan, and was for many years the standard map of Japan used by Europeans (until the 1655 map by Martino Martini).
An important atlas of Brazil is attributed to Teixeira, entitled Roteiro de todos os sinais, conhecimentos, fundos, baixos, alturas, e derrotas que há na costa do Brasil desde o Cabo de Santo Agostinho até ao estreito de Fernão de Magalhães (1586).