#17th Century

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Ring, French, 17th Century

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“ The Swedish warship Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. It was pulled from the mud 333 years later in remarkable well-preserved condition and put on display.
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The Swedish warship Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. It was pulled from the mud 333 years later in remarkable well-preserved condition and put on display.

Vasa Sweden 17th Century sailing ship museum naval nautical

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Details: An English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels, Willem van de Velde II, 1678

art painting 17th century

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“The Dance of Rats” by Ferdinand van Kessel (1690)

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Ancient wooden church, Krasnaya Lyaga, Russia. It was built in 1655.

Russia church 17th century

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1-2. The Impossible Astronaut
3. The Curse of the Black Spot
4. A Good Man Goes to War
5. Let’s Kill Hitler
6-7. The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe
8-9. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
10. A Town Called Mercy

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Caulking

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If the sawyers were the first to work on the new hull of a new ship, the caulkers, who filled the seams between the planks on the sides and decks of the ships, were the last. According to Burney’s Universal Dictionary of the Marine, to caulk was to drive a quantity of oakum, or old ropes twisted and pulled asunder, into the seams of planks in order to prevent the entrance of water. After the oakum is driven very hard into these seams, it is covered woth hot melted pitch or tar, to keep it from rotting.

Caulking Ships at the Bothuisje on the Y at Amsterdam by Reinier Nooms

That means that a caulker used a beetle ( a caulking mallet) to drive reeming- irons with the rope or the oakum into the seams.The seams were gone over with a hardening iron to firm up the caulking material in them before they were sealed with pitch or tar.

A caulking mallet, tar pot and a piece of petrified tar found on board the 16th century Mary Rose and Caulkers at work

It was unpleasant work which offered none of of the satisfaction of an shipwright in seeing a huge and beautiful hull take shape.

Ships Careened for Caulking the Hull, 17th century

Caulkers often had to work in uncomforatable positions and in 1724 the Deptford officers reported that they cannot in the winter season see to perform their day work in the dock as it ought to be unless they work their dinner time, it being so dark under the ship’s bottoms between three and four o'clock in the afternoon…

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The Fall of the Damned, 1620, Peter Paul Rubens

Medium: oil,canvas

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Merchant ships of the 17th century

Planche 10, Bateaux des côtes de France. De Nantes jusqu’à Bayonne, by Jean Jouve, 1679 (x)

The Fluyt

They were just merchant ship for the European area and were mainly used for bulk goods. Therefore, their armament was light and their crews small.

Planche 11 - Bateaux des côtes de France. De Nantes jusqu’à Bayonne, by Jean Jouve , 1679 (x)

The Pinasse

These ships were smaller but more robust than the Fluyt. Due to their construction, they were able to carry 15-20 guns and had a crew of 20 men. Therefore, in addition to trading to Canada and the West Indies, they were also used for expeditions such as to the Arctic.

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Composite armor, Nuremberg, Germany, 17th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

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