- The Storm, William Etty

- ‘The Whirl’, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Gustave Dore

-The Slave Ship (1840), J.M.W Turner

A Sea-Spell

Her lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree,
While flashing fingers weave the sweet-strung spell
Between its chords; and as the wild notes swell,
The sea-bird for those branches leaves the sea.
But to what sound her listening ear stoops she?
What netherworld gulf-whispers doth she hear,
In answering echoes from what planisphere,
Along the wind, along the estuary?
She sinks into her spell: and when full soon
Her lips move and she soars into her song,
What creatures of the midmost main shall throng
In furrowed self-clouds to the summoning rune,
Till he, the fated mariner, hears her cry,
And up her rock, bare breasted, comes to die?

- Poem and accompanying painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

- A 17th century engraving of how the Sicilian city of Syracuse used the refraction and conversion of sunbeams to set attacking Roman ships alight.

- The Fisherman and The Siren, Knut Ekvall