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To: Squantos

Not really.
These first and second rate line of battle ships were cramped, tiny, and had people out the gills in every space imaginable.
It wasn’t unheard of that these ships had anywhere from 800 to 1500 people onboard.
And conditions were pretty bad as food couldn’t be refrigerated.
Bunks were hammocks strung up three deep or more.
There was the ship’s crew, plus a marine detachment onboard.


6 posted on 01/22/2012 8:56:24 AM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: Darksheare

On a three-decker like the Victory, every deck below, 2 gun decks and probably one or more decks below would be strung every night fore and aft with hammocks, which I think were allowed a regulation 16 or 18 inches width so that they could string hundreds of hammocks on each deck. In addition to these sleeping quarters, there would be separate spaces for midshipman, lieutenants, bosun, carpenter and others. And that answers how they could have 1,000 men aboard.


24 posted on 01/22/2012 12:43:34 PM PST by JewishRighter (Anybody but Hussein)
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