#wreck of the Pacific

[puutterings]

when the rain came

  They had hardly sat down to table, when the rain came puttering down on the roof, and in a quarter of an hour the storm was as violent, and the thunder and lightning as terrific as on the day before. All the out-door labour was again suspended...

ex Robinson Ready Or the Wreck of the Pacific : Written for young people by Captain Marryat. Für die deutsche Jugend mit belehrenden Noten und einem Wörteruche versehen [provided with instructional notes and dictionary for German youth]. (Leipzig, Baumgärtner’s Buchhandlung, 1844) : 138 : link

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“puttering” for “pattering” in Masterman Ready; or, The Wreck of the Pacific. Written for Young People. By Captain Marryat. vol. 2 (of 3), (London, 1842) : 16 : link (hathitrust)

This 1842 edition contains wood engravings, some marked “DICKES.DEL” (William Dickes, 1850-92), see BM bio : link and (or) “R BRANSTON.SP” (Robert Branston, 1803?-77), BM : link

catalogue record for this edition (Michigan copy) : link

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Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) — wikipedia — authored : a signal code, several editions, the third in 1820 : A Code of signals for the use of Vessels employed in the merchant service; Including a cypher for secret correspondence : link (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek), nautical and children’s fiction, and even (uncertainly) The Floral Telegraph; or Affection’s Signals, By the Late Captain Marryatt [sic], R.N. (London, 1850?) : link

But I digress.  

#1844 #Captain Marryat #puttering for pattering #apophony #wreck of the Pacific

[yourdeadprince]

soft k-sci guys for the soul 💕 [ an og version from 2018 ]

#newmann #newtherm #newtmann #pacific rim #pacrim #newton geiszler #hermann gottlieb #my art #fanart #they're still in my heart and wreck havoc once every other year #or something

[cicada-candy]

psst

@wazzappp

✨drippy✨

wanted to try new brushes, Blaming You For The Consequences

#i had a third sketch that Would Not Work For Me so. Schoolyard Bullying my mutuals instead ahjfdksdflh #ghost rider pacific rim au #my art #im pulling an all nighter to try and fix my train-wreck of a sleep schedule and hoo boy so if these look weird thats why lmao #cw body horror

[victusinveritas]

This is the wheehouse of the US aircraft carrier Saratoga at Bikini Atoll. The slits are battle covers over the porthole openings. The ship's wheel has rotted away, but everything else was still there when this photo was taken in the early 2000s.

#uss saratoga #wwii #wreck diving #naval warfare #pacific theater

[ienianstories]

Thinking long and hard as finding out you're not drift compatible with someone as analogous to divorce. Such rich ground for agony. The end of everything you've worked towards, the pointlessness of finding out someone who is everything to you is nothing for you, incapable of helping you, unable to protect with you

#pacific rim #drift compatible #divorce #I love to make people hurt #Get wrecked #teehee

[lonestarbattleship]

Side-scan sonar mosaic of the USS NEVADA (BB-36) shipwreck site, it was discovered by Pacific Constructor in April 2020. It lays upside down, 4,715 m (15,472 feet) approximately 120 km (km) (65 nautical miles) off Pearl Harbor.

The debris field 1,968 ft (600 m) from the main hull.

Two Inverted turret on the wreck site. The turret sat in the barbette and rotated on the rollers visible in the image

Painted hull number 36 preserved on the side of NEVADA’s stern.

5-inch shell handling room and mount for a dual 5-inch/38 gun

Dual 40-mm mount and tub with toppled Mk 51 gun director

Shell fire damage to the tripod foremast

View aft toward the aft compartment with a watertight bulkhead and hatch, shut for Condition X-Ray. Note the rusticles eating at the metal like the ones on Titanic.

Overturned Crossroads Test Tank from the deck of NEVADA.

source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source

#USS Nevada (BB-36) #USS Nevada #Nevada Class #Battleship #Dreadnought #ship wreck #pacific ocean #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #April #2020 #my post

[rainbowintheclouds]

art by me, my bf and @acidscreator

Some art doodles with friends✨ this was a lot more fun than I expected and will 100% be doing this again, so much randomness

Sketchy Sans, Wreck Sans, Spiral Sans, Pacific Sans belongs to me

Acid Sans and Assassin Sans belongs to @acidscreator

Silver Sans, Coy belongs to my bf

#a rainbow can draw #undertale #undertale sans #undertale oc #sans undertale #sans au #sans oc #au sans #undertale art #undertale au #acid sans #assassin sans #sketchy sans #spiral sans #wreck sans #pacific sans #silver sans #art #oc

[i-love-books-because-reasons]

Horrific: The Empress of Ireland Wreck 1914 | Documentary

#history #1910s #1914 #empress of ireland #rms empress of ireland #ocean liners #canadian pacific railway #ships #wreck #shipwrecks #oceanliner designs #documentary #Youtube #maritime history

[floralovebot]

make 50 posts a day about helia not being a pacifist while directly ignoring his old profile where he straight up says i am a pacifist. it's okay baby girl everyone gets confused sometimes <3

#*points at rainbow* i know him better than you #i genuinely dont consider it canon though sucks to be him </3 #they just add it so randomly like its okay babes it was an afterthought and a wrong one <3 #the idea of helia walking around calling himself a pacifist while also beating people up is very funny though i will admit that #which is funnier helia doesnt know the definition of pacifist or he does know but doesn't care #helia: i've created a new genre of pacifism its called do what i say or get wrecked #he's so funny to me #the blorbo <3

[aryburn-trains]

Derailment of WB Overland Mail Train #21 near Emigrant Gap. Fulda, CA 12/18/1964

#overland mail #sp #southern pacific #up #union pacific #nyc #new york central #1964 #omaha #san francisco #trains #passenger train #history #fulda #california #train wreck #derailment #dome car

[ranseur]

adding mako and raleigh from pacific rim to your list of great m/f platonic pairs!

OHH thank you! yes i love them a lot! i forgot to mention them in my list.

i guess someone could make a case for a romantic future for them, from the time Mako was Gazing Respectfully at Raleigh's abs, but the final scene with the forehead touch and hug was perfect! i'm really glad you mentioned Mako and Raleigh because i LOVE that they didn't go for a kiss

also Pacific Rim... really gave us the gift of 'drift compatibility' as a term for being connected in mind and body without it being necessarily romantic. the other platonic drift compatible teams in that movie are splendid as well, the Striker Eureka father son team, the Crimson Typhoon triplets, and of COURSE Hermann and Newt (another two blorbos i rotate in my mind) speaking of Hermann and Newt, while the m/f platonic pairs are uncommon and very special to me, i will also say I love the m/m and f/f platonic pairs too!

#(we don't talk about pacific rim 2 ...) #to be clear i have no qualms if other people romantically ship pairs that i ship platonically or vice versa #i couldn't say what separates the non canon romantic pairs that i ship from the canon platonic pairs in my mind #I MEAN asides from age gap and being family (pairs like wreck it ralph and vanellope; or ana and elsa) #sometimes the romance is good fun and sometimes its the least interesting part for me; really depends #like navani and raboniel have all the things that clicks a f/f romance ship for me; but somehow i just love them as star crossed friends #not that i expect anyone to have read stormlight archive but they're my fave and they live in my head rent free #rambles #ALSO; i'm so sorry. i'm noticing your ask is a day old- i was on mobile and the notification must have drowned under the others #and once again i can't keep things brief;;; #anon

[20th-century-railroading]

No. 12 derailed after a vandal removed a rail at Mile 4. The ACR had to call in 2 hoists from the CPR to help out on the recovery of the 182. Sault Ste Marie, ON 05/29/1980

#ac #algoma central #cp #canadian pacific #1980 #trains #freight train #history #sault ste marie #ontario #train wreck #derailment

[razor-ramons-thighs]

Demolition Crush goes up agains his rival Billy Jack Haynes in Portland

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#demolition crush #Brian adams #billy jack haynes #portland wrestling #national wrestling alliance #pacific northwest wrestling #PNW #NWA #big time wrestling #they also had a previous feud when Brian joined the Wrecking Crew

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"WRECK SURVIVORS SAY THEY WERE SHABBILY TREATED BY THE C.P.R." Ottawa Journal. June 27, 1913. Page 1. ---- Signed Documents Waiving Further Claims When Bewildered ---- Canny Scot, However Sees a Lawyer Before Signing any Papers --- Sums Paid Vary From $12 to $70-Immigrants Claim These Will not Nearly Reimburse Them for Losses. ---- There is considerable dissatistion among the injured at St. Luke's Hospital who claim that they were shabbily treated by the C. P. R. in the matter of financiel settlement for personal losses sustained in the recent wreck of the Imperial limited.

The discontent is principally centered in the Irish and Scotch immigrants who this morning were bitter in their denunciation against the company.

Beastly Unfair. "It was beastly unfair," was the way one Irishman, Thomse Fitzpatrick expressed himself. "We had no one to advise us at all and I guess we were roped in," he added. "We were in a bewildered condition from the effects of our experiences."

The immigrants claim what they received from the company will not nearly reimburse them for the total loss of their personal effects. All those who received money had to sign statement waiving all claim for future damages.

One Scotchman from Edinburgh, Mr. William Pringle, refused to sign but saw a lawyer on the matter and will likely put in bid for a much higher figure than offered by the company. The amounts paid to those The Journal talked with ranged from $13 to $76. Some have not yet been approached by the company's officials.

Amounts Received. The following were those seen The Journal and the amounts each received: John Boyce, Donegal, Ireland, $70. He was cut about the head and body bruised.

Thomas Fitzpatrick, Cavan, Ireland, asked for $100 but was only given $25. His arms had been twisted.

Frederick McBride, Donegal, Ireland. $12. Back badly strained.

Patrick Neally. Cavan, Ireland, $15.

Patrick Devine, Donegal, Ireland, $70.

George Stuart, Scotland, $50.

Bewildered When Signing. Most of the above are bound for Manitoba and claim while yet bewildered from the effects of their experience.

Getting Along Nicely. All those injured in the wreck are getting along very nicely in the various hospitals. It is now expected that Robt. McNeally, who was most seriously injured, will recover.

Clearing the Wreck. This morning preparations were under way for shifting the two colonist cars still in the river. It is not expected that they will be moved until late this afternoon. The first-class coach was put on trucks and moved to the Britannia siding.

Will Bury Victims. The County Board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will bury all Irish Catholics killed in the C. P. R. wreck and will also amidst the among the injured.

Were Repairing Track. Sun kinks may have caused Wednesday's wreck on the C.P.R., but it is also quite possible that human and not solar agencies were responsible. Superintendent Gilliland of the C. P. R. frankly admitted to The Journal this morning that section men had been at work at that point where the Imperial Limited was thrown, a very short time before the accident. They were laying new ties, he said.

By to-morrow the railway will be in a position to assign an official cause. The investigation is going on all day at the Broad street station, and a large number of witnesses are being examined. Up to now there has been no suspension of any employes of the road.

Those investigating are: A. C. MacKenzie, Engineer of Maintenance of Ways, General Superintendent Hodge, Divisional Engineer F. W. Cooper and Mr. Gilliland.

#ottawa #train wreck #train derailment #settlement #legal chicanery #canadian pacific railway #passenger train #colonization train #scottish immigration to canada #irish immigration to canada #immigration to canada #railway journey

[gingerwerk]

“Lena, you might hear this all the time but you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen”

“No… I don’t hear that very often”

#the way this wrecks me everytime #also if I was talking to a guy and he just dropped that on me I’d probably start crying and then run away and ghost him #Kelly watches the pacific

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

I believe Aang was right to end the war by sparing Ozai. But the only (imho) valid reason some people say he should have done it is because they wanted Aang to realize that pacifism is flawed.

I'm gonna disagree with you here, because a lot of the flaws fans talk about pacism and how ATLA in particular handles it as a concept are 99%:

1 - People being ignorant/racist and not knowing the difference between pacifist monks and "make love, not war" hippies.

2 - People being ignorant/racist and refusing to understand that there are different kinds of pacifism, even within the same cultures/people groups.

Aang is very clearly not the type of pacifist to go "You can NEVER react with ANY kind of violence towards someone else, even if it's to defend yourself/someone else" (which does exist, both IRL and in the show, just look at the owl spirit in "The Library").

We see him fight, and even be quite aggressive in said fights, in a lot of episodes. We also see he has no issues with invading the Fire Nation. More importantly, for the longest time the Avatar State was a result of him being pissed off enough at some kind of injustice that it makes him lose control, meaning he is very clearly affected by the horrors of war to the point of RAGE.

What makes him a pacifist is the way in which he doesn't WANT to lose control, doens't WANT go from aggressive to full on cruel, and, yes, wants to defeat his enemies, but not kill them.

And as I keep repeating, the show DOES make him question that last boundary he set for himself. He gets told by a past Avatar, who was also an air-nomad before anything, that, when there is such a large threat to everyone's life, including his own, he has to put aside his own spiritual needs and take a life - provided there isn't another option. But there was, so Aang took that, even after he decided that, yes, if there was no other way, he WOULD kill Ozai.

What people don't like is that Avatar, although questioning some types of pacifism, is far more interested in questioning the way people are WAY too eager to use violence to solve their issues, and, more importantly, expect someone else to get their hands bloody.

Fire Lord Sozin starts the war because he, according to himself at least, wants what's best for everyone and would like to share the Fire Nation's glory and great life with the other nations. He tries to do by invading foreign territories, killing his best friend, and commiting genocide. The fucker even has the dragons, an obvious Fire Nation symbol, to be hunted to extintion.

When Jet is angry at the Gaang for ruining his plan to free a village from the Fire Nation's control by blowing up a dam, Sokka asks "Who would be free? Everyone would be dead."

Zuko is banished because he spoke out against a Fire Nation higher-up's plan to use soldiers as fresh meat to bait the enemy into a more vulnerable position, thus assuring the nation's victory in that battle. He openly says "These men love and defend our nation, how can you betray them?"

When Zhao wants to kill the moon spirit, Iroh tries to stop him by pointing out that the Fire Nation needs the moon too (seriously, if it wasn't for Yue's sacrifice and Zhao's death, the Fire Nation would have had to create a word for "Big-ass wave that wrecks everything and kills people" like Japan did).

When Aang is deliberately trying to trigger the Avatar State because he doesn't want anyone else to die in the war, Katara, who had her life ruined by said war, is against it because while she opposes the Fire Nation, she cares about Aang and, in her own words, seeing him in so much pain and rage hurts her too. When Aang can't force himself to go nuclear, an Earth Kingdom ruler attacks Katara and makes both her and Aang, two very traumatized child soldiers, think he is going to kill her.

More importantly, when Ozai wants to burn down Earth Kingdom cities, he says "A new world will rise from the ashes, and I'll be supreme ruler of everything", to which Zuko concludes that, if they don't save the world before his dad takes over, there won't be a world to save.

And what does he say to Aang when he is about to kill him? "You're weak, just like your people. They didn't deserve to live in world, in my world."

Avatar does questions pacifism, and is critical of it on ocasion (again, watch "The Library"). But it's biggest theme is being critical of VIOLENCE, of resorting to it immediately without considering any other option and acting like it doesn't have long-lasting negative consequences, both to the person suffering it to the person inflicting it (see Azula's breakdown, Zuko's angry outburts only making him more miserable, Jeong Jeong growing to resent being a firebender, Zhao accidentally burning his own ships, etc)

The show is constantly highlighting that, yes, sacrifices need to be made for the greater good - but that CAN'T be normalized because it inevitably leads to a never-ending cicle of cruelty, as well as suffering to the one who has to do the dirty job (because lets not forget there's a big difference in how a soldier that is constantly in battle sees the war and how a king that just gives the orders but never goes into the actual combat sees the war).

The show embraces pacifism, despite knowing some versions of it are flawed, because the narratives themes are:

1 - EVERYONE is capable of great good and great evil

2 - No group has the right to impose it's own lifestyle onto others

3 - If everyone is either dead, mentally (and physically) scarred for life, or preparing to kill someone as revenge, then being killed by someone who wants to avenge that person, who will themselves be killed for revenge later, then the "greater good" you're sacrificing everything for doesn't actually exist because NO ONE will have a good life in a world that is stuck in the cicle of violence.

#pro aang #aang defense squad #aang deserved better #respect aang or die by my sword