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Tattoo GalleryButterfly Tattoo | Capital Letter Tattoo | Clipper Ship Tattoo | Dagger Through Rose Tattoo The Full-Rigged or Clipper ShipMaritime tattooing and the full-rigged sailing ship have been found together since tattooing first entered modern western culture with early sailors in the South Pacific. While many maritime tattoo designs will use a ship for various reasons, there was also a very specific reason for a tattoo of a full-rigged ship -- the singular and dangerous accomplishment of sailing around Cape Horn (the rocky headland of Chile, south of Tierra del Fuego, at the bottom tip of South America). Alternatively, it has also been noted that a sailor who sails around the Cape is entitled to a small, blue five-pointed star tattoo on the left ear. Five times around the Horn earned one on the right ear as well. Two red marks on the forehead meant that the sailor was a mighty voyager, having rounded the Cape ten or more times.
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