Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour and it's drunken crew ...

[dogtag]

Hey, when a ship's been at sea for months on end who
can blame the crew for a bit of boozing and sodomizing ?
I mean, what else is there to do in the days before TV ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Australia.html

[Sandpebble]

It's not gay... when you're under weigh

[dogtag]

Let's weigh anchor and get under way

[barretcreek]

Rum, sodomy and the lash.

[Tuna]

The head of this project is a women named Dr. Cathleen Abbas. She has been obsessed with this finding the Endeavor even after noted authors and research people have told here that there has been about 10 ships named the Lord Sandwich and that this very well may not be the Endeavor at all. She has no proof that one of the wrecks sitting on the bottom of Newport Harbor is the real Endeavor. I would like to see that it turns out to be the Endeavor as it would put an ending to the life story of a special ship. But unless some proof like a ships bell is found and that is not likely then it shall just remain an unsolved mystery.

[Vern Humphrey]

Rum, sodomy and the lash.

-- Winston Churchill

[RETREAD123456]

I believe the quote was ' Rum, buggery,and the lash have served the Royal Navy for 300 years"

[Vern Humphrey]

I believe the quote was ' Rum, buggery,and the lash have served the Royal Navy for 300 years"

You are correct.

Although rum doesn't go back that far. Lord Admiral Edward Vernon (for whom Mount Vernon was named) instituted the general issue of rum during the 7 years war. He wore a boat cloak made of grogham cloth, and was known through the Royal Navy as "old Grog."

[clintonhater]

I believe the quote was ' Rum, buggery,and the lash have served the Royal Navy for 300 years"

I hope that meant that, after the lash (for buggery, 100 strokes should suffice), the use of the rum was for splashing it on their backs.

[Vern Humphrey]

I hope that meant that, after the lash (for buggery, 100 strokes should suffice), the use of the rum was for splashing it on their backs.

Nope, he meant it literally.

[mike webb]

Churchill barked the comment to a Royal Navy admiral who said that Churchill's plan ran counter to Royal Navy tradition. He said something to the effect that the only Royal Navy traditions were rum, sodomy and the lash. Historically discipline in the Royal Navy was brutal with floggings handed out for just about anything. Certainly a flogging scared British seaman way worse than the French or Spanish navies.

[dogtag]

I hope that meant that, after the lash (for buggery, 100 strokes should suffice), the use of the rum was for splashing it on their backs.

Salt water on the back, rum down the throat.

[RETREAD123456]

Seems a waste of grog , Would think salt water would suffice, What was the crime to be punished by keel hauling. ?