Ships and Boats on Electrical Wall Plates

 Shown above is a beautifully executed  design that will look lovely in any coastal or nautical decor.

This painting, by American Homer Winslow, is hard evidence that the appeal of the sea was certainly alive and well in the late 1800's. Boys were dreaming of going to sea then, and liked to pretend by sailing their little toy boats.

This oil on panel, titled "The Boat Builders," showing boys building toy boats, as they sit near the sea, while a real boat sails nearby, is part of the collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Sailboats were a popular them in 1873, when this work was created, and they remain so today. 

Here's a picture of a Cruise Shipcarrying Life Boats. Does that help?

As the old saying goes, a ship can carry a boat, but a boat can't carry a ship.

Another way to remember it is that 

S is for Ships and Sea, but

Boats stay By the shore.

Ships (generally larger vessels) are made to carry cargo and/or people from land to land across the sea, while boats travel mostly on rivers, lakes, and close to shore in the ocean.

She set several clipper ship records, all of which apparently still stand to this day - well over 150 years later.

On one occasion, the Sovereign of the Seas broke the record for the fastest eastbound transatlantic crossing. She sailed from New York City to Liverpool England, in a mere thirteen and a half days.

Another record was for the fastest speed recorded for a clipper - 22 knots. This record was set in 1854.

The first cruise ship I ever sailed on was the MS Sovereign of the Seas. No, not the clipper ship pictured above, but a modern day cruise ship. When "my" Sovereign first sailed, in 1988, she was the biggest, grandest passenger ship ever built - up to that time. (Now, there are much bigger ones.)

She was so big, in fact, that some people wondered if she would actually float. She was so revolutionary that the cruise line wanted a fitting name for their grand lady. So, another Sovereign of the Seas began to sail.

She still sails today, over 25 years later, tough under a shortened name. She's now called MS Sovereign. Though she's been transferred to another fleet, in another country, I'd eagerly sail on her again, given even half a chance. Guess it's true that your first will always be special.

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