George Shelvocke
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George Shelvocke was an English Royal Navy officer and later privateer who in 1726 wrote the memoir A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea based on his exploits. It includes an account
Sailors in cold waters of the South Sea gawk at sea lions off their bow, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Engraving by Gustave Doré.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a
George Shelvocke
…how his second captain, Simon Hatley, shot an albatross off Cape Horn, an incident which provided the dramatic motive in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Born into a farming family in Shropshire and christened at St Mary's, Shrewsbury, on 1 April 1675, Shelvocke joined the Royal Navy when he was fifteen…
The Mariner up on the mast in a storm. One of the wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré of the poem.
Frontispiece by William Strang for a 1903 edition of Coleridge's poem.
Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of the poem. The Albatross depicts 17 sailors on the deck of a wooden ship facing an albatross. Icicles hang from the rigging.
"The Albatross about my Neck was Hung", etching by William Strang, published 1896