Maritime folklore

Puerto Rican pirate (1791–1825)

thumb|An Aspidochelone from a French manuscript, c. 1270. J. Paul Getty Museum According to the tradition of the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries, the aspidochelone is a fabled sea creature, variously described as a large whale or vast sea turtle, and a giant sea monster with huge spines on the ridge of its back. No matter what form it is, it is always described as being so huge that it is often mistaken for a rocky island covered with sand dunes and vegetation. The name aspidochelone appears to be a compound word combining Greek aspis (which means either "asp" or "shield"), and chelone, t

shipping route around the Cape of Good Hope

Portuguese buccaneer

sperm whale that inspired the novel Moby Dick

1850 British survey vessel

London slave ship captured by pirate Samuel Bellamy

location where scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate

ghost ship

thumb|right|310px|Brendan discovering the Faroes and IcelandStamp sheet FR 252–253 of Postverk FøroyaIssued: 18 April 1994Artist: Colin Harrison

English buccaneer

literary genre

Dutch naval officer

sailing route – late 17th & early 18th centuries

protagonist of the Voyage of Máel Dúin

Legendary supposed afterlife

Spanish pirate

loose coalition of pirates in the Caribbean of the 17th and 18th centuries

17th-century English sailing ship

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Italian folktale

thumb|La Chasse-galerie by Henri Julien, 1906, [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]]

18th-century African pirate

thumb|253x253px|Two modern imaginings of the Quinotaur

British pirate

American pirate

American sailor

thumb|Illustration of a similar creature in the Alexander Romance, Armenian manuscript, 1538–1544. The saratan (from the Arabic سرطان, saraṭān, "crab"), sometimes spelled zaratan, is a giant sea creature from Arabic literature and folklore.

pirate

thumb|200px|A sea-griffin. The sea-griffin (German: Fischgreif; Polish: rybogryf, gryf morski) is a heraldic charge in form of an aquatic griffin with the head, upper half, wings, and talons of an eagle and the lower half of a fish.

1690s ship

19th-century American sailor and blackbirder

Canadian ship

representations of pirates in fiction or riterature

nautical tradition of body art

thumb|175px|right|A sea-lion, illustrated in A Complete Guide to Heraldry (1909). In heraldry, the term sea-lion (sometimes called a morse) refers to a legendary creature that has the head and upper body of a lion, but with webbed forelimbs and a fish tail. These occur most frequently as supporters, but also occur as crests and occasionally as charges. Sea-lions are frequently found in "sejant" or "sejant-erect" (sitting upright) attitudes, but may also be found "naiant" (horizontally, as if swimming) or "assurgeant" (issuing from the waves of the sea).

list of superstitions particular to sailors and boating

term for a sailor

The fish-man of Liérganes () is an entity of the mythology of Cantabria, located in the north of Spain. The fish-man would be an amphibian human-looking being, who looked a lot like a metamorphosis of a real human being who was lost at sea. His story was examined by Enlightenment writer Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, who claimed that the story was true.

legends in Norse mythology