This was bought at an auction in Beverley and originates from around 1850. It shows a ship and a mermaid. Scrimshaw is the name of the craft and handiwork of whalers, usually things made from the ...

When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...

The ballet plies the emotions of two central figures: the Poet, who represents Andersen himself and is aboard a ship for the wedding of Edvard and Harriette, and the Little Mermaid, whom the Poet ...