Tag: ships logbooks

• Ships before steam: the trade-wind highways of the age of sail, drawn from real logbooks

  

  6,524 passages from British, Dutch, Spanish and French ships’ logbooks, 1750 to 1850. Drawn as lines, they show ships running out with the trade winds, looping home past the Azores and racing east through the roaring forties to Java.

  Tristan Hotham

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  age of sail, CLIWOC, data visualisation, history, maps, maritime history, ships logbooks, trade winds