Handicrafts often occupied the leisure hours at sea – many seamen produced scrimshaw (decorated whales’ teeth or bone), drew or painted, fashioned items from twine or canvas, or built model ships. In 1880 sailors on the steamship Canterbury embroidered this colourful design.
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