Watercolour drawings of HMS Erebus and Terror during the Antarctic Expedition of 1839–43 lead by Captain James Clark Ross and Commander Francis Rawdon Moira Croizer, by John Edward Davis (1815-1877), 1839-1843

Davis was Second Master on Commander Crozier’s Terror and a number of his drawings (the first ever of the Antarctic continent) were used by Ross to illustrate his A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions during the years 1839-43 published in two volumes in London in 1847.

Ice station zebra, Charles Xelot

Oldschool vs newschool. 242 years of naval technology difference

Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900)

Back in April 2022, workers came across something rather unusual in the Dungeness Quarry in Kent. There they found the remains of a shipwreck lying 300 metres inland in the sediment of the quarry. The wreck is the wooden hull of caravel-type, of which about 100 oak planks and beams have survived. According to dendrochronological analysis, the wood came from trees felled between 1558 and 1580, the archaeologists have now announced.

How the ship got there can only be guessed at; it could have accidentally run aground on the gravelly ground, but it is also conceivable that it was deliberately run aground and abandoned at the end of its service. In order to protect the wreck and to be able to carry out further research, the wreck was buried in the silt again.