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[Men_in_Boxes]

In a lot of these old movies, you see crews having to deal with rations, scurvy, starvation etc, but you never see 5 - 10 fishing lines trolling off the back.

 

[kruis]

Trawling, not trolling.

 

[Plies]

 

[AJUMP23]

Yes catching fish was part of their plan for food. But it was not guaranteed.

The British used island in the pacific to seed breadfruit as a staple for their ships. So there were supply chains all over.

 

[AJUMP23]

The also at times had chickens and a goat or cow onboard for milk and eggs.

Those were reserved for officers.

 

[Plies]

Breadfruit?

 

[SirKicksalot]

They used to melt chocolate bars inside coconuts on The Bounty. Well, the 1st lieutenant did.

 

[jason10mm]

All those men in a ship for months....no wonder they all wanted to catch a....

 

[RJMacready73]

I'm sure when they where at anchor they threw out a few lines but the majority of their food was in the hold or came from island pit stops, fish are hard to catch on a quick moving ship and the amount you would need to catch to feed a crew would be huge and not worth the effort considering the amount of daily work onboard an 18th century sailing ship.

When we where in Málaga a few weeks back a proper old skool replica was in port built using the actual plans from 1754 I think

Which was great as my holiday book was the Wager about an infamous British voyage to capture a Spanish treasure ship that resulted in one of the longest ship wrecked cases ever and was just an incredible read, fuck ever going on those ships back in the day

 

[Hookshot]

The Brits suffered from scurvy due to a lack of citrus but their other rations were much better than rival navies. They'd take cattle on board to provide beef to their sailors. There's a TV show by Al Murray (That I've forgotten the title of) that goes into it, the French troops at the time were envious of what they were getting

 

[AJUMP23]

Breadfruit?

Please read a book

 

[Doom85]

All those men in a ship for months....no wonder they all wanted to catch a....

Better hope they're not in the Pirates of the Caribbean universe (which, to my understanding, was a more accurate depiction of many countries' folklore of the mermaid concept) otherwise this won't go as they were hoping……

 

[jason10mm]

Better hope they're not in the Pirates of the Caribbean universe (which, to my understanding, was a more accurate depiction of many countries' folklore of the mermaid concept) otherwise this won't go as they were hoping……

 

[RJMacready73]

The Brits suffered from scurvy due to a lack of citrus but their other rations were much better than rival navies. They'd take cattle on board to provide beef to their sailors. There's a TV show by Al Murray (That I've forgotten the title of) that goes into it, the French troops at the time were envious of what they were getting

Scurvy was a lack of vitamin C, in later years they dished out lime juice which resulted in the English being called Limey's! Loads of common English sayings originated from the ships of that era

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

The British used island in the pacific to seed breadfruit as a staple for their ships. So there were supply chains all over.

Hey you taught me something today!

 

[Doom85]