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Here’s a few cartoons I did in 2017. Okay, the bits weren’t animated in the magazine and they only used the top two. The other two are more of the same for people who think you simply can’t have too many cartoon ships.

Ships Aho-Ho-Hoy Fjor

U-cloud U-cloud2
Vikingship
water

The Viking tall ship, created in 50AD, was one reason the Viking Age didn’t begin until several centuries later.

Ships Aho-Ho-Hoy Drei

U-cloud U-cloud2 U-boat

Despite legendary German engineering, their U-boats in the age of sail were, frankly, not very stealthy.

Ships Aho-Ho-Hoy! Two

hexareme

To outdo the Greek biremes and triremes the Majorcans built the battle hexareme. Never heard of the Majorcan Navy? Now you know why.

Ships Aho-Ho-Hoy!

seacamel

While the “ship of the desert” made life in the Sahara possible, the Satrap of Benghazi’s “camel of the sea” made fighting in the Mediterranean ridiculous.

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