Motif · motif_full_rigged_ship
Full Rigged Ship
1 attested · 2 promoted3 sources · T1
Also called Full-rigged ship · Fully rigged ship
What the research says
motifs_seed- Category
- object
- Variants
- three-masted; under full sail; ship in a storm
- Common styles
- american traditional
- Common themes
- maritime
Provenance
3 resolvedThe Historic Dockyard Chatham
Maritime heritage museum article on naval tattoo designs. Verbatim: records show designs that are "marks of love, loss and life events" while others demonstrate "national identities, religious faith, and patriotic pride"; "Each swallow represents 5,000 nautical miles in a sailor's career." One of the few tier 1 sources that speaks about tattoo subject matter as lived human experience rather than as art history.
museum · retrieved 2026-08-28
Royal Museums Greenwich
National Maritime Museum page. Verbatim: the word 'tattoo' is "derived from the Tahitian word 'tatau', meaning to mark"; a pig and a rooster tattooed on the feet were "said to protect a seaman from drowning"; a full-rigged ship, an anchor, a dragon and a shellback turtle each record a specific voyage or crossing. Establishes protective (apotropaic) intent inside the tattoo domain.
museum · retrieved 2026-08-28
Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life
Tattoo magazine book feature. Names traditional subject pairings verbatim: "snake and dagger pierced hearts", "devils ride alongside hearts and crosses with daggers", and a subject list including "mermaids, contortionists, sailing ships and helms". Cited in this batch ONLY as attestation that these objects are drawn subjects; the page states no symbolic meaning for any of them.
professional tattoo source · published 2022-06-09 · retrieved 2026-08-30
Related concepts
3 linksAssociated with · 1
- strength 0.75promoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_full_rigged_ship ('maritime'); themes_seed.common_motifs of theme_maritime ('full-rigged ship'). Asserted independently from both ends of the relation; deduped to one edge. Confidence is the LOWER of the contributing rows, not the higher. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_historic_dockyard_tattoos; source_rmg_tattoo_facts; source_tattoolife_wonderful_traditional; source_rmg_tattoos_in_europe; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.75 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by TWO parent rows, one from each endpoint's own association column; the pack's scale reads 0.75 as 'frequent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.
Can symbolize · 1
- strength 0.75researched
CREDENTIAL MEANING, two Tier 1 museums agreeing. Royal Museums Greenwich: “A full-rigged ship shows the seaman has sailed round Cape Horn”. The Historic Dockyard states the same milestone independently and scopes it historically; its wording is quoted on the motif_full_rigged_ship node, which cites it.
Frequently used in · 1
- strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_full_rigged_ship ('american traditional'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_historic_dockyard_tattoos; source_rmg_tattoo_facts; source_tattoolife_wonderful_traditional; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.