This first September 2020 evening offered this view over to Kronborg
castle on the Danish side of Öresund.
Tuesday 1 September 2020
Monday 31 August 2020
Schooners and galeases stuck in the ice (1871)
The winter of 1871 was cold in Denmark. These seven Danish schooners and galeases were stuck in the ice off Aarhus in January that winter. My colorization of an image in the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark archive. The museum gives the names of four of the ships: The galeas Sophie, the 2-masted schooner Thales, the galeas Elisabeth and the 2-masted schooner Kirstine, all from Aarhus.
You can see crew members standing in front of some of the ships.
"A galeas is a type of small trade vessel that was common in the Baltic Sea and North Sea from the 17th to the early 20th centuries"
(Wikipedia).
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