Ken's Journal Halifax, Peggy's Cove and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia |
The Halifax Maritime Museum is nicely done. Here's an exhibit of sailing ship models. |
More display from the museum. On the right, behind the buoy, is a row of cases called "visible storage". Instead of hiding excess items in some warehouse somewhere, they display them in these cases so you can see them - the items won't be labeled, but it's interesting to see them anyhow. The Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck, NS had a similar arrangement. |
Cunard was a Haligonian (not Halifaxian) so merits a good chunk of the museum. This piece is as shown - Cunard at war - and how his passenger ships served the war. |
There is a permanent Titanic exhibit to include a number of artifacts and a well put-together story of the sinking. There is also a 3D movie made in the 1990s during one of the dives to the resting place of the Titanic. |
This is a Hotchkiss gun. Built in 1903, this thing shot a 3-pound projectile. |
A cutaway of a torpedo. |
A contact mine from WWII - used to protect the Halifax Harbor from German Submarines and surface vessels. |
And no maritime museum would be complete without a Pirate exhibit. Here are models of some of the ships they used . . . |
. . . and some of the weapons they used. |
Pirate Rules - Arrrrgh, Matey!! Pirates governed their lives with the "articles", a list of rules governing life aboard. Once you signed the articles, you became a pirate. The Articles of the Pirate Sloop Fortune, Captain Bartholomew Roberts, 1719. 1. Every man shall have an equal vote in affairs of moment. He shall have an equal title to the fresh provisions or strong liquors at any time seized, and shall use them at pleasure unless a scarcity may make it necessary for the common good that a retrenchment may be voted. 2. Every man shall be called fairly in turn by the list on board of prizes, because over and above their proper share, they are allowed a shift of clothes. But if they defraud the company to the value of even one dollar in plate, jewels or money, they shall be marooned. If any man rob another he shall have his nose and ears slit, and be put ashore where he shall be sure to encounter hardships. 3. None shall game for money either with dice or cards. 4. The lights and candles should be put out at eight at night, and if any of the crew desire to drink after that hour, they shall sit upon the open deck without lights. 5. Each man shall keep his piece, cutlass and pistols at all times clean and ready for action. 6. No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them. If any man shall be found seducing any of the latter sex and carrying her to sea in disguise, he shall suffer death. 7. He that shall desert the ship or his quarters in time of battle shall be punished by death or marooning. 8. None shall strike another on board the ship, but every man's quarrel shall be ended on shore by sword or pistol in this manner. At the word of command from the quartermaster, each man being previously placed back to back, shall turn and fire immediately. If any man do not, the quartermaster shall knock the piece out of his hand. If both miss their aim, they shall take to their cutlasses, and he that draweth first blood shall be declared victor. 9. No man shall talk of breaking up their way of living till each has a share of 1,000. Every man who shall become a cripple or lose a limb in the service shall have 800 pieces of eight from the common stock and for lesser hurts proportionately. 10. The captain and the quartermaster shall each receive two shares of a prize, the master gunner and boatswain, one and one half shares, all other officers one and one quarter, and private gentlemen of fortune, one share each. 11. The musicians shall have rest on the Sabbath Day only by right. On all other days by favor only. |
"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
- William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways |
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