"Food at sea in the age of fighting sail" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Aug 2020 1:06 p.m. PST |
"Few subjects have been more misunderstood than the diet of ratings and their officers on board Royal Navy vessels during the ‘long eighteenth century' from 1688 until 1815. It makes a good story, particularly from the onset of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, when British warships remained on station for unprecedented durations, both to enforce the blockade of France and its continental possessions, and to fight its fleets in the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas. Conventional wisdom has conceived of Royal Navy ships as ‘floating concentration camps' manned by miserable and frequently coerced sailors subject to brutal, and brutally arbitrary, discipline at the whim of sadistic captains. They and their officers may have eaten well and even lavishly, but their men subsisted on substandard stores of rotten meat and weevilly biscuit…"
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| JAFD26 | 21 Aug 2020 4:34 a.m. PST |
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Shagnasty  | 21 Aug 2020 12:20 p.m. PST |
That was what grog was for. Nothing like rum with lime juice. |
| Tango01 | 21 Aug 2020 12:33 p.m. PST |
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returns to Flintloque to paint an Ogre.
