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To: SmithL

These guys should be happy for a little shouting. They could have gotten the rum, lash and sodomy Royal Navy.


17 posted on 01/09/2006 9:28:33 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (The problem with being a 'big tent' Party is that the clowns are seated with the paying customers.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

As much as I like Churchill and his quotes, the idea that at any time in the Royal Navy, especially the age of sail, sailors were getting the lash left and right routinely is a myth.

It was no tea party and sailors weren't coddled, but there was a lot less flogging and physical punishment than a lot of people think. Many good ships had almost no flogging.


22 posted on 01/09/2006 9:32:12 PM PST by Strategerist
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