Was life on an 18th century ship as comfy as I imagine it was?

was life on an 18th century ship as comfy as I imagine it was?

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lmao

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lol no
>Nothing to do but work and be gay
>ship always wobling and swaying from side to side
>hot and sweaty some days, cold as ass on other days
>shitty weather

?

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imagine that in every long trip you make 10% or more of the passengers died

it was like that

Sure m8, let me put those fucking lemons in my magical cryogenic storage machine for my week-month long voyage.

depends if you are a top or a bottom...

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Being a bottom is very comfy.

>18th century
Hellish
>today
comfy

Do you like bread that is so hard you have to smash it with a hammer and suck on the pieces?
Do you enjoy salted beef that gets less salty when you soak it in ocean water?

Lemon juice mixed with sugar brought the HMS Suffolk 4 months of scurvy free open sea.

do you actually enjoy it or is it just to see the other guy have a good time?

neither

user said 18th century not 19th

Only one of those things is due to boat

>bottom
>very comfy
I mean who doesn't enjoy a bit of the ol'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bowel_syndrome

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I don't care but the pirate bay is down, even the onion address.

How is this related to tech?

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bowel_syndrome
ruh roh, looks like a lot of the information didn't fit too well with the narrative
conservapedia.com/Gay_bowel_syndrome

bad food, bad nutrition, limited water supply, disease, hard work most of the day every day, significant risk of being attacked by pirates, no privacy, sleeping in bunks or hammocks with loads of other guys who were probably not very friendly

TF are doing in Jow Forums

back to /b/ faggot

This is what the berth looks like a ship today. I promise you it was much fucking worse in the 1700s.

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wrong board

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was actually worse to be in the navy than it was to be in prison. lower survival rate

lol that wikipedia article is pretty barebones

>Same food of either rotten bread or salted pork everyday
>Cold and wet
>No privacy
>Do the same menial tasks day in day out
>Contract an incurable illness and die before you get where you are going

The past is nowhere near how you think it was.

can't have anything related to negative stereotypes on PC media, even if the information may benefit the stereotyped subjects.

Only if you like having botulism, Scurvy, Typhoid fever, Typhus, and such.

>no toilet paper for months

Put it on rum you stupid fuck

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Between you and a king several centuries ago, you probably have life better in the parents' basement.

You've got indoor plumbing, refrigeration, climate controls, sanitary food available in and out of season, and YouTube.

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YouTube would have turned Alexander the Great into a NEET.

True, I feed my cats better food than royalty would have eaten.

Don't let Sea of Thieves and Black Flag fool you, life back then sucked big time. It was either die in the high seas or die in a gutter.

> no toilets
> no toilet paper
> no toothbrushes. no toothpaste.
> no sanitized water
> no clean water for showers
> no fresh fruits. no fresh food.
> no air conditioning
> no headache, diarrhea, cold, toothache medications
> no antibiotics
> no laundry detergent, no washing machine
> unlikely to have clean bed and sheets
> no rat poison or pesticides to keep pests away

the captain's cabin ain't even up to today's navy crew member cabins.

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It takes the body 1 to 3 months to deplete all vitamin c. Mines probably 3 months where you weaker kids are at 1 month. A simple lemon would have me more powerful than all of you

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If you think harsh disciplinary measures for minor misconducts, scorbutic and the ever looming threat of death is comfy, then yes - it was very comfy.

James Lind published his "Treatise of the scurvy" in 1753. A good number of ships used lemons and oranges after this but was more down to the Captain/supply master whether they used them or not. By the last decade of the 18th centenary all British ships used them.

>British ships
>Lemons

Why the fuck do you think they're called "Limeys"?

yeah why

No shit fuck face, being a Limey I kind of know that.

No, you get scurvy

Then why the fuck didn't you say it you fucking retard

> no toilets
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(watercraft)
It was there.
> no toilet paper
Sure, it is mid-19th century luxury, use water.
> no toothbrushes. no toothpaste.
Toothbrushes existed. Toothpaste didn't existed, but special powder were around
> no sanitized water
You can always boil the water. But there is a problem, in early days, there were no method of extracting salt from sea water, and that is why freshwater was limited.
To make sure, that water won't become bad too fast, they used vinegar and vine.
> no clean water for showers
Sea water. Literally ocean of it.
> no fresh fruits.
Check
> no fresh food.
You can theoretically fish... And you can theoretically do something with seeds.
> no air conditioning
Air con. is a meme.
> no headache
Axe is a good solution
> diarrhea
Do you know something about carbon?
> cold
Retards are not allowed on board.
> toothache medications
Stone is a good solution
> no antibiotics
Fucking meme
> no laundry detergent
Yes, but you don't really need it
> no washing machine
Not needed, use your fucking hands
> unlikely to have clean bed and sheets
???
> no rat poison or pesticides to keep pests away
Major issue, caused a lot of problems.
Also there is no WiFi or electricity, this is a fucking problem!

Yes, but only if you were in the based British Navy. Top of the line ships and the most elite press ganged crews kidnapped from the finest local pisswater taverns. Even the rats had to go through rigorous physical tests to make it onto one of His Majesty's ships.

If you were a frog or dirty Spaniard on a god forsaken European ship it was the next best thing to a death sentence. Sooner or later one of Blighty's finest would blast them out of the water anyway.

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What the hell kind of book is that?

There's something seriously wrong with that author.

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No, the opposite

Literally all this mother fucker writes about is Sodomy and sailors. He must be a gigantic faggot, but my question is, how the fuck did you know about these books?

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Is that a submarine? Why is the "roof" curved?

His next book is about sodomy in the American Navy. Kinky bastard.

Not Jow Forums related, go to /his/ you fucking imbecile

Sailing ships are technology...just not new technology. Prove me wrong.

That, or he's found his readers niche.

the pressure hull on a submarine is round as that is the best shape to withstand pressure

Computers used for gaming are also technology but Jow Forums tells them to fuck off to /v/.

Nice mental gymnastics

>> no air conditioning
>Air con. is a meme.
>> no antibiotics
>Fucking meme

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Lemme guess, you've been playing Sea of Thieves... Real life for sailors in the 18th century was pure and utter shit bud

>Get a scrape or cut
>Infection
>Oh well, guess that's it I am going to die.

People really don't understand how good they have it living post 19th century.

Yeah, go ahead and use sea water to shower for a couple of days. See what happens. You fucking moron.

Ships are technology

how harsh? do they throw you overboard to the sharks?

Nothing pre 20 century was particularly comfy, and ships were some of the least comfy places.
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The captains on ships had absolute legal control over everyone, they were judge, jury and executioner. Punishment was lashing and hanging, thats it, those are the two choices of punishment

That isn't even the half of it. There were lots more punishments
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You’re clueless. The captain wasn’t a dictator because the crew were full aware that the ship depended on them. If the captain went overboard with punishments there was a big risk of mutiny.

The punishment listed in the Admiralty Black Book for sleeping on watch, a very serious offence because it endangered the ship, was at first humiliating and for repeated offences brutal. A bucket of sea-water was poured over the head of a first offender. A second time the offender's hands were tied over his head and a bucket of water was poured down each sleeve. For a third offence the man was tied to the mast with heavy gun chambers secured to his arms, and the captain could order as much additional pain to be inflicted as he wished. The fourth offence was inevitably fatal; the offender was slung in a covered basket hung below the bowsprit. Within this prison he had a loaf of bread, a mug of ale and a sharp knife. An armed sentry ensured that he did not return aboard if he managed to escape from the basket. Two alternatives remained -- starve to death or cut himself adrift to drown in the sea.

>fresh water
That's what the giant tortoise was for!
They can survive without food or water for a year, store gallons of fresh, refreshing water in a special bladder, and tasted absolutely delicious!
Just stack them up on your ship by the hundred and away you go into the blue deep!

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Killing sailors happened all the time, especially in the 18th century. To Mutiny was a death sentence. You would be hunted down for taking a ship. Mutiny was pretty rare.

Why would anyone want to have sex with a filthy pirate? I'm not a gay specialist, but don't you need to be extra clean when you want to engaged in butt fucking?

When it’s your third month at sea and you don’t even remember what a female looks like, even that hairy piece of ass with dried shit hanging out of it will look attractive. I don’t think they had a concept of cleanliness

Sauerkraut my man

Wooden ships, iron men.
The community would be strong, with a strong identity in the character of each sailor, and a firm assurance of the existence of God.
However the living conditions were quite rough, and the rate of mortality from simply falling off the rigging was rather high.
A sailor could expect to not see home for years at a time, even.

And loads of anal sex, don't forget that.

No, simply not true.

not in a tropical environment, the only food that would last a long time aboard ship was hard tack

Maybe its worth it if you get to rape qt native babes.

did this actually happen?

No, natives were never raped

If they were part of say, the royal navy, discipline was maintained on land and sea.
Only in their off time when not on the king's coin would they proceed rapine a'merillie on the quay.

Note and even then, they would be subject to british justice. Have to keep the peace in whatever land you're subjugating, afterall, don't want to risk an uprising.

Obvously, it happened a lot, but apparently, the encounters with natives could be very friendly too.
I was reading this book about Magelan and it says that sometimes when the sailors reached the coasts of South America, they'd throw a party with the natives and shit.

On a boat right now in the bering sea and is is NOT comfy I want to go HOME

18th century navy, sure. But 16th century navy was a different matter.

>While I was in the boat, I seized a very beautiful Caribbean woman.
Having brought her to my cabin and as, according to their custom, she was naked, I got the idea of enjoying myself. I tried to put my desire into
practice, but she did not want to oblige and belaboured me with her nails in
such a fashion that I wished I had never started. But, on considering the
situation, I took a rope and whipped her, as a result of which she gave vent
to such unbelievable howls, that you would not have believed your ears. In
the end we came to an agreement such that I can assure you she might have
been raised in a school for whores. - Michel de Curneo

>In
>the end we came to an agreement such that I can assure you she might have
>been raised in a school for whores
kek
truth in fiction

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