I drive the bridge multiple times a week. Sometimes multiple times a day. I love the feeling of coming east and leaving the western shore behind. The #Chesapeakebay Bridge is often called the scariest #bridge in the US. They say that the older eastbound span is particularly frightening. There’s a curve in the road on the ascent to the bridge’s highest point that can make it seem like you’re driving off the edge. The bridge’s highest sections are exposed to the elements and often hit by storms. In bad weather, visibility can be so poor that land is invisible. High winds will shut down the bridge. Low, open barriers allow you to see the water far below. Giant #ships travel through daily.
The view from the water below is beautiful 
Castellum Hoge Woerd in Utrecht, Netherlands
This recreated Roman outpost stands above its buried predecessor.#rivers #ships #military #militaryhistory #castles #restoration #fortresses #unesco #roman #section-Atlas
Castellum Hoge Woerd
There’s a novel in this…Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davies sailing on board the Nieuw Amsterdam
from Southampton to New York, 4 July 1962 to 11 July 1962.
What did they get up to 
The American authorities watching them every step of the way.
What did they get up to
#WritersCoffeeClub 16 Apr How present is music
400 years from now there is barely any electricity, so no radio, no TV, no internet
Throughout Wolfland it’s a tradition to have a night out on a Saturday.
In Lancaster, OpenMike runs the Variety Show. Music, dance, songs, comedy skits, etc.
The book is often punctuated with music and song.
The Orchestra of Miss Fortune appears regularly.
Even aboard ship, things stop for 'Saturday night fun night'.
Das Motiv mit dem schlichten indigoblauen Segelschiff gabs bisher nur als festmontiertes größeres Motiv. Derzeit auf https://www.wandklex.art/product/originalaquarell-segelschiff-schlicht-gefasst-in-edelstahlanhaenger-oder-auf-pillendose-handgemalt-383386 aber auch als Druckknopfmotiv-Varianten. Natürlich handgemalter #wandklexschmuck, 20mm, kompatibel mit all meinen Druckknopfkunststückchen.
Titanic's Legacy: Our Favorite Reads
The world's fastest glacier, Chartreuse jelly, and other stories connected to the doomed ocean liner.#ourfavoritereads #disasters #glaciers #history #shipwrecks #ships #titanic #section-Articles
Titanic's Legacy: Our Favorite Reads
The Good Ship Grace in Los Angeles, California
This ship-shape Streamline Moderne building was once the headquarters of a nautically inclined radio preacher.#ships #radio #christianity #artdeco #section-Atlas
The Good Ship Grace
"A detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours.
The exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 - 1,500 passengers lost their lives in the disaster."
#pennedpossibilities 2 Apr 'What originally inspired your plot'
On 2 Jan 2025 I woke up from a weird dream - modern day central London with no motor vehicles, only horses. I have pen and paper at my bedside and started writing.
The idea developed. I went to my desk at home and started typing lots.
Climate Change. No oil, no cars, no aircraft, no internet.
The British Isles 400 years from now.
https://www.copper-wolf.com/banderisate/reporter.php?bundle=r71200203693004015032310249
1925 SS Resolute, Hamburg-Amerika Linie
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#German #Postcard #Travel #OceanLiner #Ephemera #BoatsofMastodon #Ships #Retro #Vintage
#Trump wants to build more container ships in the United States. It’s not so simple. -
“Container #ships normally operate like waterborne buses, making scheduled stops at multiple ports along a coastline.
But facing fees that might reach $3.5 million for each stop, they would probably choose to unload all of their cargo in just one place, such as the Port of Los Angeles, executives said.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/23/trump-shipbuilding-fees-china/
explore nova scotia coast shipwrecks in 3D; all dived, photographed and 3d modelled by 1 person
For those days you just want to jump on a steamer and sail away...
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SS Portmar, At Sea, Calmar Line postcard.
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#photovibe #vibes #Boats #Ships #BoatsofMastodon #Retro #Postcard #Vintage #Ephemera
14 March 1963
Scotland Yard detectives investigating the shooting of a gambling club doorman are hunting for a mystery man known as The Watcher. They believe that he is behind the violence that has hit the gambling clubs in the West End. The Watcher goes into gambling clubs, stays long enough to spot the big winners, then phones a gang of gunmen. When the winners leave the club, members of the gang are waiting to beat them up and rob them.
Practicing using poster paints for game and animation backgrounds.
![Screenshot of Wikipedia entry
Crow's nests appear in Egyptian reliefs as early as 1200 BC and on eighth to seventh century BC representations of Phoenician, Etruscan, and Boiotian ships.[3] The crow’s nest disappears completely from depictions of ships after the seventh century, although the relationship between a raised vantage point and better visibility continued to be well understood. Theon of Smyrna wrote that by climbing the mast of a ship, one could see land that is invisible to those on deck.[3]
The first recorded appearance of the term was in 1807, used to describe Scoresby Sr.'s barrel crows nest platform.[citation needed] According to a popular naval legend, the term derives from the practice of Viking sailors, who carried crows or ravens in a cage secured to the top of the mast. In cases of poor visibility, a crow was released, and the navigator plotted a course corresponding to the bird's flight path because the bird invariably headed "as the crow flies" towards the nearest land.[4] However, other naval scholars have found no evidence of the masthead crow cage and suggest the name was coined because Scoresby's lookout platform resembled a crow's nest in a tree.[5]](https://o.mastodon.au/media_attachments/files/114/227/659/493/705/628/original/0ac603c9f71e8454.png "Screenshot of Wikipedia entry
Crow's nests appear in Egyptian reliefs as early as 1200 BC and on eighth to seventh century BC representations of Phoenician, Etruscan, and Boiotian ships.[3] The crow’s nest disappears completely from depictions of ships after the seventh century, although the relationship between a raised vantage point and better visibility continued to be well understood. Theon of Smyrna wrote that by climbing the mast of a ship, one could see land that is invisible to those on deck.[3]
The first recorded appearance of the term was in 1807, used to describe Scoresby Sr.'s barrel crows nest platform.[citation needed] According to a popular naval legend, the term derives from the practice of Viking sailors, who carried crows or ravens in a cage secured to the top of the mast. In cases of poor visibility, a crow was released, and the navigator plotted a course corresponding to the bird's flight path because the bird invariably headed \"as the crow flies\" towards the nearest land.[4] However, other naval scholars have found no evidence of the masthead crow cage and suggest the name was coined because Scoresby's lookout platform resembled a crow's nest in a tree.[5]")
