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Steamship Otago on the rocks at Chaslands Mistake, 4 December 1876

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  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • marley1027 said:
    You know you're having a bad day when...
  • vickiecollins said:
    Talk about being between a rock and a hard place............
  • Sjon Svenson said:
    to bad we don't hear the colourfull seamans expletives of the moment ^__^'
  • andy pucko said:
    Oopsie
  • FrigateRN said:
    The joys of sailing!

Sailing ship Chance, aground at Bluff, 1902

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  • John Hughes said:
    Fascinating picture. Anyone know what the wind turbine was for - bilge pump, or below decks ventilation?
  • Terrific Lake said:
    great shot
  • Translated Poorly said:
    The wind turbine is most likely for a electric generator, atleast in some ships of the same age.
  • John Hughes said:
    Yes, electric generator I think it must be. I was recently reading how Nansen had one installed aboard Fram on his drift across the north polar ice-cap in the 1890s.
  • Copper Kettle said:
    Interesting. Maybe as oil becomes scarce there again will be ships propelled by sail, with wind and solar generators to power the automatic rigging systems, navigation, etc.

Members of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company in their bunks below the ground at La Fosse Farm

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  • jamica1 said:
    claustrophobes need not apply!
  • jamica1 said:
    You say in the caption 5 December 2017. Do you perhaps mean 1917?
  • Antonio R. Tabares said:
    jamica1 👍

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