Nautical tattoo ideas

139 photos and flash · 40% Traditional, 21% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Back view of a man in a white t-shirt showing a black traditional-style ship's wheel with a skull at its centre on his forearm, and a partly visible coloured tattoo on his upper arm.
Ship's wheel with skull on a forearm
Black and grey traditional anchor tattoo with a coiled rope wrapped around the shank, shown on the upper arm.
Anchor and rope on upper arm
Full arm sleeve in traditional style with a sailing ship, shark, swallow, pin-up and roses scattered with small stars, shown in three photographs on the upper arm and forearm.
Traditional nautical full arm sleeve
Black and grey traditional compass rose with a rope-wrapped anchor on a shoulder and upper arm, with a small blue accent in the compass centre.
Compass and anchor on shoulder and upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a compass rose, ship's wheel and pocket watch with chain on the upper arm and shoulder.
Compass, ship's wheel and pocket watch on upper arm
Four views of a black and grey nautical full sleeve tattoo on an arm, showing an octopus, a skull, a ship's wheel and a compass star, placed from the forearm up to the upper arm.
Black and grey nautical full sleeve
Colour tattoo of a pink rose wrapped in rope with a grey anchor on the upper arm, in a neo-traditional style with soft shading.
Pink rose and anchor on upper arm
Black ink compass rose with an anchor below it, Traditional style, on the upper arm of a person wearing a denim jacket.
Compass rose and anchor on upper arm
Black and grey realism sleeve tattoo of a sailing ship and compass rose on a man's upper arm and forearm.
Sailing ship and compass sleeve
Realism black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a compass, pocket watch, handwritten map script and an old banknote.
Compass, pocket watch and map sleeve
Black and grey traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing a classic cartoon mouse at a ship's wheel, framed by rope, a lamp and an anchor.
Cartoon mouse at ship's wheel with anchor and rope