[decimon]

I think that most of that activity was practiced down in the cable tiers.

According to Churchill there was also rum and the lash.

[centurion316]

The rum was passed out on the gun deck, where the mess tables were rigged. The lash was administered in the well of the main deck with the miscrents seized up to a hatch grating. The real action (buggery) was in the cable tiers at about 4 bells of the middle watch.