Keep your powder dry

Heavyweight shirts printed with engravings from the type specimen books of 1832 and 1889. Cannons, galleys, ships and sea creatures, each one printed when you order it.

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Six rooms aboard

Every shirt belongs to a part of the ship: the powder room, the galley, the print shop, the ships themselves, the creatures alongside and the watch on deck.
Three shirts from The Powder Room: Loose Cannon in khaki, Keep Your Powder Dry in black and Powder Monkey in blue spruce

The Powder Room

Three shirts from The Galley: Splice the Mainbrace in brick, Black Coffee, Rough Seas in ivory and Oysters in Every Style in grey

The Galley

Three shirts from The Print Shop: Broadside in khaki, Ink & Iron in black and Bill of Lading in ivory

The Print Shop

Three shirts from Ships: Fair Winds in true navy, The Flagship in black and Steam Packet Line in brick

Ships

Three shirts from Sea Life: Thar She Blows in blue spruce, Dockside Social Club in khaki and Slow Ahead in white

Sea Life

Three shirts from Watch & Weather: Blowing a Gale in white, Dead Reckoning in true navy and Tide & Time in black

Watch & Weather

The Powder Room

Cannons, powder and the rules that kept a wooden ship from blowing itself up.
Galley & Gunpowder Seal T-Shirt in Ivory

Galley & Gunpowder Seal T-Shirt

Galley & Gunpowder Seal T-Shirt
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Two rooms that could sink a ship

A wooden warship carried fire in the galley and gunpowder in the magazine, and kept them well apart. Galley & Gunpowder is named for those two rooms, and for the printer’s galley that holds the type.

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The Galley

Rum, tea, coffee, oysters and the cook who kept the ship’s fire burning.
Splice the Mainbrace T-Shirt in Brick

Splice the Mainbrace T-Shirt

Splice the Mainbrace T-Shirt
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Every line has a history

Each shirt starts with a numbered cut from a nineteenth-century type foundry: a field gun from Boston in 1889, a walrus from Baltimore in 1832. The specimen book shows all 31, with the page each was printed on.

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Sea Life

A fish, a walrus, a whale, a pelican and a turtle.
The One That Got Away T-Shirt in Khaki

The One That Got Away T-Shirt

The One That Got Away T-Shirt
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Keep your powder dry · Fair winds and following seas · Splice the mainbrace · Batten down the hatches · Slow ahead · Beat to quarters ·