Showing posts with label seamen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seamen. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Thursday, 25 July 2019
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
The pirates are coming, the pirates are coming
Michael Michilli, a Yale, Michigan resident also known as Captain
Fishbones, is planning to lead a group of Michigan "pirate
entertainers" attending Sarnia's Tall Ships Celebration in August.
Information about the Tall Ships Celebration can be found online
at:
pmorden@postmedia.comhttps://www.theobserver.ca/news/local-news/the-pirates-are-coming-the-pirates-are-coming
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Saturday, 10 November 2018
Friday, 22 June 2018
Learn the ropes in the ancient art of smuggling!
Coastal Exploration's converted whelker, Salford, off Norfolk.
Picture: Peter Naylor.
Monday, 11 June 2018
The Most Valuable Treasure Ship found off the coast of Cornwall England. The President Merchant Ship-East India Company.
Isaac Sailmaker - Two Views of an East Indiaman of the Time of King
William III.
Sunday, 6 May 2018
Sunday, 18 March 2018
Saturday, 17 March 2018
Monday, 5 February 2018
Solving the Mysterious Disappearance of Two 18th-Century French Frigates
A 1798 engraving depicts L’Astrolabe and La Boussole. STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES/PUBIC DOMAIN.
Sunday, 20 August 2017
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Crown and Anchor Dice Game.
Dice Players By Giuseppe Maria Crespi.
The dice game known as Crown and Anchor has been known since the early 18th century, & was apparently a favourite game played by seamen.
Approx. 17.5 x 17 inches. Hand painted gambling
board for the game of Crown and Anchor. It dates c. late 18th century
and was found in an old wood box of effects with the stamps on the box of the
American ship Lydia of Boston, under Captain Samuel Hill.
Crown and Anchor dice 1800-1900 ad.
A Sailors Scrimshaw Gambling Dice Carved from a Sperm Whale Tooth
With designs for a heart, crown, club, spades, anchor and diamond,
inlaid with pitch and red wax
Early 19th Century.
17th
century leather dice shaker c. 1680 to c. 1720 English.
Wooden Dice Box 18th Century (National Museums of
Scotland).
English crown and anchor board, early to mid 19th
century, circa 1830 – 1870.
I believe this is a representation of the game board used
by the French and Belgian's; the sun replacing the crown.
Crown and Anchor Dice game Rules.
Rules of play
The game is played between a player and a banker. A canvas or felt mat marked with the six symbols is used for play. The player places bets on one or more symbols. He then throws the three dice. If there is a bet on any symbol which comes up on one or more of the dice, the banker pays the player the amount of his stake for each die showing that symbol: even money if one, 2:1 if two, and 3:1 if three. If the symbol doesn't come up, the player loses his bet.
On average, the player will win 92.1% of the amount he bets; that is, over time he will lose 7.9% of whatever he bets. Thus, the banker has a substantial edge. In a game at a festival or casino, the house will be banker. In a game among friends, each person serves as banker in turn.
There is a similar Flemish version called Anker en Zon ("Anchor and Sun"), in which a sun symbol replaces the crown. The French version again uses the sun, and is called Ancre, Pique, et Soleil ("Anchor, Spade, and Sun").
The game is played between a player and a banker. A canvas or felt mat marked with the six symbols is used for play. The player places bets on one or more symbols. He then throws the three dice. If there is a bet on any symbol which comes up on one or more of the dice, the banker pays the player the amount of his stake for each die showing that symbol: even money if one, 2:1 if two, and 3:1 if three. If the symbol doesn't come up, the player loses his bet.
On average, the player will win 92.1% of the amount he bets; that is, over time he will lose 7.9% of whatever he bets. Thus, the banker has a substantial edge. In a game at a festival or casino, the house will be banker. In a game among friends, each person serves as banker in turn.
There is a similar Flemish version called Anker en Zon ("Anchor and Sun"), in which a sun symbol replaces the crown. The French version again uses the sun, and is called Ancre, Pique, et Soleil ("Anchor, Spade, and Sun").
This game with it's cloth board would be very easily carried in ones knapsack. Perhaps with the attached images above you may be able to make your own board & dice. Wood, bone or antler I think would be acceptable for the dice, and oilcloth or canvas for the board.
Keith.
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Anglo-American maritime clothing from 1680-1740 crowdfunding campaign.
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My GoFundMe campaign to raise money for my research trip
to London to complete my work on Anglo-American maritime clothing from
1680-1740 is slowly but surely making progress. However, I still need the help
of this community to make it anywhere near my goal. Below are some more
thoughts that I hope makes more of you consider donating to this cause (TL;DR =
You all helped inspire this project, it is a that subject appeals to many of
your interests, the project needs help from you if it is going to succeed, and
its success will help bring more information on this subject to others.):
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Saturday, 12 November 2016
Saturday, 29 October 2016
Replica Spanish Ship Visits York Town.
El Galeón e is a replica of a ship used by the Spanish Crown between
the 16th and 18th centuries.
(York County)
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