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Tango0128 Jul 2020 3:20 p.m. PST

"Life at sea during the age of sail was filled with hardship. Sailors had to accept cramped conditions, disease, poor food and pay, and bad weather.

Over a period of hundreds of years, seafarers from the age of the early explorers to the time of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, shared many common experiences. Men working at sea had much to endure; cut off from normal life on shore for months, even years, they had to accept cramped conditions, disease, poor food and pay. Above all, they faced the daily dangers of sea and weather…"
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Vincent the Librarian28 Jul 2020 7:55 p.m. PST

Life on land wasn't a picnic either. Until the Age of Exploration, most sea voyages did not take that long.

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