Cultural inclinations

Hi there folks!

Today we're going to sail through a bit of history "Queen Anne's Revenge" comes from our lovely Stettin in Western Pomerania located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. This Slavic, Scandinavian, German and then Polish city since the Middle Ages belonged to the merchant Hanzatic union and had trade relations with England. Sailing ships carried honey, hides and grain to Albion, and in return they brought beautiful and warm English cloth and aromatic spices. London's Thames River (now on Cannon street) there were great Hanseatic warehouses called Steel Yard. There the interests of English and Stettin merchants met, and ship crews regularly sailed between the two ports . This first "European Union" existed for almost 600 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelyard So you'll ask why we sing English sea songs on the shores of the Baltic? Precisely because in the port taverns of the Hanseatic League you could meet British sailors who brought shanties with them. As an example In the Gdansk maritime museum we can admire items from the 18th century british sailing ship "General Carlton" that sank near the mouth of the Piaśnica river

In the photo from the collection of the national museum, a view of Stettin at the "Castle of the dukes of Pomerania" from the side of the Łasztownia district.

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