The Meridian Society
Fetching the instruments…
The ledger · MDCCCLXXI to the present

Ships sent, and how they came home

Every expedition the Society has put to sea, from the first sounding to the spring sailing now fitting out. Filter by where they went.

1871

The first sounding

Capt. H. Marlowe · Archipelagos
Returned
1879

North by the ice road

Dr. A. Lindqvist · Northern seas
Returned
1886

The salt interior

Miss E. Okafor · Interior
Returned
1893

Lanterns, observed

Capt. T. Reyes · Archipelagos
Returned, in part
1902

The whale road

Mr. J. Brandt · Northern seas
Lost
1911

Source of the Vey

Dr. S. Haddad · Interior
Returned
1924

The Drowned Teeth

Capt. M. Moreau · Archipelagos
Returned
1938

Across the white

Miss I. Park · Northern seas
Returned
1961

The second Aubade

Dr. R. Menon · Archipelagos
Returned
2026

The spring sailing

You, perhaps · Archipelagos
Fitting out
Sent home by packet

Postcards

From Port Aubade Sailed at dawn. All well.
From The ice road Cold beyond telling. Send socks.
From Isle of Lanterns The lights again. No one ashore.
From Source of the Vey Found it. It is a puddle.
From St. Vey The chart ends here. We go on.
From Home Back, thinner, wiser, late.
The articles of the Society
Article the first

Draw what is there

Not what the last chart said, nor what the patron hoped. A blank is better than a guess.

Article the second

Bring everyone home

No coast is worth a crew. Turn back early and often; the sea keeps.

Article the third

Leave room at the edge

Every chart ends somewhere. Leave the margin wide, for whoever goes next.