If you are interested in maritime linguistic connections betw. the Ottoman and the wider Mediterranean world, here an important reference work: The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin. By Kahane/Kahane/Tietze,1988 (1st ed. 1958) 🧵1/ #MaritimeHistory

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A blue-and-red working tug rests against the golden wall of the harbour terminal. #Photography #MaritimePhotography #HongKong #HarbourTug #MaritimeHeritage

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#Turkey: World’s Oldest Shipwreck Archaeologists recently discovered what is believed to be the world's oldest shipwreck, a wooden cargo ship that sank off Turkey's Kekova Island. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

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The Great War at Sea. Mediterranean. Naval Action, 1912 to 1923 Fleets of 11 nations in this game.. Considering as teaching material. (Btw, new semester has just started) #MaritimeHistory #naval #warships

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#OTD 15/10/1941#RememberRCN -SS Vancouver Island (captured ex-German Weser) torpedoed by U558, mid-NorthAtlantic. There were no survivors of the 102 souls on board. Weser was renamed and placed under Canadian registry after being captured by HMCS PRINCE ROBERT on 25 Sept 1940.

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