It looks like a (modern or old) version of this print: "The Bermuda Floating Dock, In Tow of H.M.Ss Warrior and Black Prince and Terrible astern Leaving Porto Santo for their Voyage across the Atlantic, July 4th 1869"
I don’t get it. It sounds like you are claiming the article image is not AI slop, but rather an old print. But then you link to something that isn’t even remotely like the article image.
helsinkiandrew 6 hours ago [-]
It was common for paintings/etchings to be made based on existing paintings in the 19th century - I'm guessing the painting link I gave was probably close to an original or source.
There's lots of similar images on the internet, this image on Alamy claims to scanned from a Victorian mechanical‑engineering book of the 1880s
/e: this is likely not the illustration you were referring to I realize now.
msandford 6 hours ago [-]
There was a time in the early steamship days where they carried both engines and sails. If that's what you object to it's very easy to verify this with historical records.
If something else, sure maybe.
Luc 4 hours ago [-]
Something else. Rigging is the ropes holding the masts and controlling the sails. There's a bunch of weirdness going on with that. Someone with an interest in sail boats will spot it easily.
msandford 3 hours ago [-]
Looks pretty normal to me for ships of that era. Wooden masts and natural cordage means you need a lot of rigging to keep things standing.
Comparing these rigs to modern ones with aluminum masts and stainless wire or dyneema rope is very apples to oranges.
Even more so since 97% of modern boats have Bermudan rigs (triangle sails) where as these ships have square sails.
Leonard_of_Q 8 hours ago [-]
Not to mention the presence of two small boats which are not the type you'd want to cross an ocean in.
Were cameras at the time really that good already? Or was it likely restored with some creative license?
pixelesque 7 hours ago [-]
Yes, as long as you were happy to wait 30s for an exposure (on tripod), by 1850 (most of those photos were > 15 years later than that) there were many photos of good quality.
Look at photos of Crystal Palace in 1851 for example.
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jukujala 9 hours ago [-]
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pseudalopex 50 minutes ago [-]
Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Admiralty_floating_doc...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/HMS_Psyc...
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/library-archi...
There's lots of similar images on the internet, this image on Alamy claims to scanned from a Victorian mechanical‑engineering book of the 1880s
https://www.alamy.com/an-old-engraving-showing-the-british-f...
/e: this is likely not the illustration you were referring to I realize now.
If something else, sure maybe.
Comparing these rigs to modern ones with aluminum masts and stainless wire or dyneema rope is very apples to oranges.
Even more so since 97% of modern boats have Bermudan rigs (triangle sails) where as these ships have square sails.
https://nmb.bm/history/look-down-look-down/
Were cameras at the time really that good already? Or was it likely restored with some creative license?
Look at photos of Crystal Palace in 1851 for example.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The gallery has some images and photos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Dockyard,_Bermuda