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  2. Ever Given - Wikipedia

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    Ever Given (simplified Chinese: 长赐轮; traditional Chinese: 長賜輪; pinyin: Cháng Cì Lún [6]) is one of the largest container ships in the world. The ship is owned by Shoei Kisen Kaisha (a ship-owning and leasing subsidiary of the large Japanese shipbuilding company Imabari Shipbuilding), and is time chartered and operated by container transportation and shipping company Evergreen ...

  3. Saltcellar with Portuguese Figures - Wikipedia

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    It is attributed to an unknown master or workshop who has been given the name Master of the Heraldic Ship by art historians. It depicts four Portuguese figures, two of higher class and the other two are possibly guards protecting them. In the 16th century, Portuguese visitors ordered ivory salt cellars and ivory spoons similar to this object.

  4. James E. Buttersworth - Wikipedia

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    James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) was an English painter who specialized in maritime art and is considered among the foremost ship portraitists in the United States of the nineteenth century. [1] His paintings are particularly known for their meticulous detail, dramatic settings, and grace in movement.

  5. Sailors' superstitions - Wikipedia

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    He is a merry and diligent creature, with an expert understanding of most watercraft, and an irrepressible musical talent. He also rescues sailors washed overboard. The name comes from the Low German verb klabastern meaning "rumble" or "make a noise". An etymology deriving the name from the verb kalfatern ("to caulk") has also been suggested. [31]

  6. The sea in culture - Wikipedia

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    The sea and ships have been depicted in art ranging from simple drawings of dhows on the walls of huts in Lamu [3] to seascapes by Joseph Turner. The genre of marine art became especially important in the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, with works showing the Dutch navy at the peak of its military prowess. [27]

  7. Marine art - Wikipedia

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    Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1 ]

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  9. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    A dish of ships biscuit crumbs and minced salt pork, usually a meal of last resort for officers when other food stores are exhausted. butt Where the butt of one plank joins with the butt of another. by and large By means into the wind, while large means with the wind. "By and large" is therefore used to indicate all possible situations, e.g ...