Skrimshaw is a sport that may not be familiar to everyone, but its history is nonetheless rich and storied.
In late 2008, a document was uncovered in the bottom drawer of an antique armoire. That document was a journal kept by Edgar Rutherford Millington, a British sailor serving as botswain aboard the S.S. Trondheim, a Norwegian whaling ship. Among descriptions of the Trondheim's adventures at sea, Millington's journal described a game played by himself and the other sailors. That sport was known as skrimshaw.
This blog's goal is to tell the story of skrimshaw, to encourage its growth, and to rediscover the sport for the modern day.
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