Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' there were at least 4 film versions: the best known are probably the ones from 1935 with Charles Laughton as Bligh and [[Clark Gable]] as Fletcher Christian; and 1962, with Trevor Howard as Bligh and [[Marlon Brando]] as Christian.

* Lampshaded in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'', when the crew are on the wooden ship version of ''Enterprise'', on the holodeck. (The scene, of course, is a tribute to how [[Space Is an Ocean|the franchise owes this genre big-time]].)

'''Riker''': Bad food, brutal discipline... no women. }}

* The classic 1956 version of ''[[Moby Dick]]'' with Gregory Peck as Ahab.

* The sections concerning the people of the Iron Islands in [[A Song of Ice and Fire]], especially those that take place on boats, come across like this. Bonus points for them being called the Iron Men.

* Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet's poem "[http://www.constitutional.net/099.html Clipper Ships and Captains]" is an ode to this period, even going so far as to include the lines:

But the men were iron men. }}