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167 photos and 20 illustrations tagged sail, from 18 members of Flickr Commons.

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2021

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Wampole's Preparation: : Lighthouse from National Library of Medicine uploaded January 2025
Paris, La Conciergerie & Le Pont Au Change from National Library of Medicine uploaded July 2024
Preparación De Wampole: =: Wampole Preparation: Fisherman with Several Fish in His Boat from National Library of Medicine uploaded September 2023
Almost! VD from National Library of Medicine uploaded September 2023
Bring the girls along from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2021
Nantucket Harbor, Mass. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2020
Dismasted and abandoned. from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded September 2019
British Library digitised image from page 233 of "The Casquet of Literature: being a selection in poetry and prose from the works of the most admired authors. Edited, with biographical and literary notes, by C. G, etc" from British Library uploaded April 2018
Sedney pearling lugger returning to Thursday Island, 1936 from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2018
Pearling around Thursday Island, 1936 from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2018
The Quays in Sligo from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2017
British Library digitised image from page 279 of "Two Summers in Greenland. An artist's adventures among ice and islands, in fiords and mountains ... Illustrated [With a map.]" from British Library uploaded August 2016
British Library digitised image from page 24 of "Notes of a journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam. By H. W. Smyth ... With maps and illustrations" from British Library uploaded August 2016
A port in Heraklion from Salt Research uploaded May 2016
Yacht underway, seen from portside, with a five person crew. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded April 2016

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Cape Charles, Labrador, NL, 1908

from Musée McCord Stewart Museum

mambo1935 said:
grace!

Dismasted and abandoned.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

10 older comments, and then…
O Mac said:
Fahy Bay near Letterfrack, Co Galway. maps.app.goo.gl/q9BpemTohQ6MVcwH8
derangedlemur said:
It's quite lumpy. I'd have thought Mayo rather than Connemara. Outside Westport, with all those wee islands, probably.
derangedlemur said:
Or Galway, I guess.
beachcomber australia said:
And then the wind changed . . . the starboard view with another smaller boat. I think it has a steam engine, hence no masts. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000523117
John_McK1966 said:
beachcomber australia I agree re steam and there appears to be a small funnel at back (stern?)

Shamrock III in dry dock at Erie Basin, Aug. 17, 1903 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

2 older comments, and then…
Paul Jackson said:
What an absolutely beautiful vessel
swanq said:
Challenger for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_America's_Cup See also america-scoop.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...
Richard Norton said:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shamrock_III_(ship,_1903)
Iain said:
Fascinating to see the delicate alignment of blocks under the keel and then the baulks of timber to hold her upright.
swanq said:
According to saveindustrialbrooklyn.org/red_hook.html the dry dock, in Brooklyn, NY, was filled in recently and is the parking lot for the Brooklyn IKEA. See the parking lot at www.google.com/maps/@40.6717748,-74.0131385,406m/data=!3m... History of the shipyard is at www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/5small/inac...