Bone ship

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First class warship , 1804 (today in the International Maritime Museum Hamburg ).

A bone ship is a model of a ship made entirely or in part from animal bones . Bone ships were made mainly during the Napoleonic Wars by French seamen in British captivity , so-called prisoner of war models .

Bone ships of French sailors

French seamen in British captivity during and after the Napoleonic Wars were initially interned in dismantled ships on the English and Scottish coasts and later in specially built prisons. There some of them made ship models and sold them to their guards, who also provided them with the appropriate tools. This is partly attributed to the ivory carving tradition of the French city of Dieppe, which dates back to the Middle Ages .

The prisoners of war made the ship models from memory. The construction is French, for better salability the models have been given features of British warships. Wood was used as the material, and sheep and cattle bones were used for the outer cladding, hair of animals and people or silk for the rigging.

Collections

Bone ships are now collectibles and are on display in maritime museums around the world, particularly in the UK. 32 copies are in the International Maritime Museum Hamburg .

Other uses of the term

  • "Bone ship" also describes a ship that is seaworthy only with heavy work - with "backbreaking work" - or is used as a creepy literary metaphor.
  • Ships that transport bones from slaughterhouses for processing in soap or glue factories were named after their cargo as “bone ships”.

Web links

Commons : Bones  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Ewart C. Freeston: Prisoner-of-War Ship Models, 1775-1825. Nautical Publishing Company Ltd., Lymington, 1973, ISBN 0245504710 .
  • Clive L. Lloyd: The Arts and Crafts of Napoleonic and American Prisoners of War 1756-1816. Antique Collectors' Club Ltd., Woodbridge, Suffolk, ISBN 978-1-85149-529-0 .
  • Manfred Stein: Prisoner of War Bone Ship Models. Maximilian Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7822-1205-2 .
  • Horst Rüdel: Relics from the coalition wars. Bone ships of French prisoners of war. In: cultural property. From the research of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Volume 11, 2006, pp. 6-8.
  • Wolfram zu Mondfeld: Bone ships. The prisoner-of-war models 1775 to 1814. Koehler Verlag, Herford 1989, ISBN 3-7822-0439-5 .
  • Altonaer Museum (ed.): Ships made of bone and ivory. Peter Tamm collection and other possessions. Self-published, Hamburg 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Stein: Prisoner of War Bone Ship Models. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Hans Jürgen Hansen: Ship models. The history of shipbuilding as reflected in contemporary models . Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg / Hamburg 1972, ISBN 3-7979-1827-5 , p. 122 .
  3. ↑ Manfred Stein: The "Prisoner-of-War" ship models in the International Maritime Museum, Hamburg (Coll. Peter Tamm) - The bone ships . S. 5 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Georg Prager: Savior without fame. The adventure of sea help, Sutton Verlag, 7th edition, Erfurt 2012, p. 142. Lutz Röhrich: Lexicon of proverbial speeches. 5th edition, Herder, Freiburg 2001, p. 859
  5. ^ Nicolai Riedel: International Günter Kunert Bibliography 1947–2011. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 567, ISBN 978-3-11-018935-3 . Birgit H. Lermen, Matthias Loewen: Poetry from the GDR. Exemplary analyzes. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1987, p. 274
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  7. ↑ Terry Jones: Fairy Tales. Pavilion Books, London 1981, ISBN 978-0-907516-03-3 . German edition: Of witches, elves and flying tigers. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 42-45, ISBN 3-8218-3653-9
  8. ↑ Christoph Ransmayr: The third air or a stage by the sea. Speech at the opening of the Salzburg Festival 1997. Fischer E-Books, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, o. P.
  9. ↑ Kabdebó Tamás: Danubius Danubia. Folyamregény. Argumentum, Budapest 1998, 963-446-083-6. Quoted from the English edition, Thomas Kabdebo: Danubius Danubia, E-Book o. S., ISBN 978-963-377-100-6
  10. ^ Paul Madsack: Vae victis. My experiences in Spain and France during the world war. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1918 (GZ 5th floor / B / 39-51). Publishing house advertising in Das Kunstblatt, Volume 3 (1919), p. 32, online