I don't understand how people "see" a Ram's head when they look at this?!?!
I see something more in the lines of a "Sea Witch".
I see something more in the lines of a "Sea Witch".
The Sandusky's Figurehead
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The term rams head for the figurehead came when ships were built with the figurehead carried goats and other livestock onboard. Also it could be linked with the 18th century and early 19th century warships that carried the identical figurehead used in ramming. Obviously this was a merchant ship and the figurehead was built as a naval tradition. As the decades passed, the figureheads became expensive and sometimes affected the ships steering qualities so they diminished by the 1870s all together. Pat Labadie mentioned this not too long ago about the rams head not looking like a one at all but cited this to me.
I have to agree. I've been diving up there for a while and have looked at that numerous times at different angles and have yet to say, "Oh yeah, I see it". I attributed it to an artists/craftsman's interpretation of a ram's head. It's still cool, none the less. Nice pics!
ComputerJoe
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It's a divers physiological ink blot test....
So you see a Sea Witch, hmmm
Did your mother breast or bottle feed you?
What are your Freudian feelings toward you mother?
A very interesting case...
So you see a Sea Witch, hmmm
Did your mother breast or bottle feed you?
What are your Freudian feelings toward you mother?
A very interesting case...
Check out this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ox5MBpFls4 I took a few years ago and also look at Thunder Bay Minow's Picture above. It looks like an "Evil Bart Simson" to me. The figurehead is at the 3:56 mark. You may want to turn your sound off because I had a metal clip on the housing that gets rather annoying.
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