Sea life in Nelson's time

Chapter 10: FOOTNOTES:

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The work surveys naval life during the age of sail, opening with ship design, construction, materials, sheathing and rigging, then explaining armament and gun operation. It sketches the ship's internal layout deck by deck and profiles officers, warrant officials and ordinary seamen, describing duties, hierarchy, messes, clothing and provisions. Later chapters cover discipline and punishments, conduct in battle and daily routines at sea and in port, alongside crew songs, signals and customs. Illustrated technical notes and an appendix complement vivid accounts of shipboard work, sailing maneuvers, and the social atmosphere of life aboard men-of-war.

FOOTNOTES:

[19] We believe that this was not always properly done. We read of the wounded in one ship being operated upon by a saw from the carpenter’s stock. A stiff upper lip was very necessary aboard a ship of that kind.

[20] Money was advanced to the purser for the purchase of wine. He generally bought weak, or adulterated wine, at a low price, and pocketed the money saved.

[21] Half of all the slush went to the cook. The other half went to the ship, for the greasing of the bottom and running rigging.