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The Sailmaker ticketting the Hammocks on board the Pallas, Nov 74' Bray album : Artwork, Illustrations and Photographs Nov 1774.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
View online- Format:
- Image
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2873
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- A drawing of a sailmaker signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). Men were issued with hammocks which bore a number indicating their place in the ship - quite literally since it was the space where the hammock would be slung and returned after airing (see PAJ1989) or being packed into the gunwale hammock nettings on deck where they were put in battle, as protection from small-arms fire. The head of the capstan indicates this is an upper-deck scene. The drawing also shows the working dress of a sailmaker - who was a specific warrant officer - and (presumably) his mate.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:PAJ1992.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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