{"id":1946,"date":"2018-02-14T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2018-02-14T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:25:39","slug":"tasman-background-on-the-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/02\/14\/tasman-background-on-the-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasman Background – On the Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Work on board a ship was unending. Since sailing required 24-hour attention, the crew worked long shifts. Bells signaled each hour and their shifts. Workers who didn’t perform their duties were often punished by being beaten and\/or having their rations cut.<\/p>\n

Off-shift sailors took to different ways to use their time. Many played cards and brawled. Others created scrimshaw items to sell. They used knives and carved animal-shapes or intricate designs into bones. Once in a harbor, they sold them to earn money for drinking in grog shops or to buy products while ashore.<\/p>\n

In addition to manning the sails and keeping on course, the deck needed to be kept clean. That meant the tedious process of holystoning the boards\/deck. A small piece of the deck\u00a0 was wet down. A worker (a slave, a convict, or a low-ranking sailor) spent several days a week on their hands and knees using the holystone to scrub circles in an effort to eliminate grit, seawater, etc. that collected on the deck.<\/p>\n

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