
The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know
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Did Women Give Berth on Ships?
There was a myth that when each must victory, sheas not the same colour. They would have put sandn on the floor to kind of stop you sliding around in it. You'd be held down and operated on with no kind of anaesthetic - just having your arm lopped off. Women had to share their food rations they didn't get their own food rations so that had to be split between them. While kids on board, for example, who were very, very tiny children. We did talk about siness earlier, wat i certainly did cab de gingeron insgram asks how sailors combated seasickness. I mean, nelson famously got seasick really badly
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