History is so rich. And so are tales in general. If you hath any sort of empathy at all it’s easy to try to imagine the shit people went through in times past. It’s so fantastical to think what we once overcame and were subjected to on simple principles like honor or duty.
you WILL drink the piss you WILL eat bug-infested hardtack you WILL sleep on the deck and you WILL be happy Pirate food playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLQSjRW7kXy7zULKzQQ7LuSJCEeIlzR1EC.html Pirate candy video: ua-cam.com/video/QtLkGsEYR5I/v-deo.htmlsi=QP2Ydr6x_JjqeenA
Ah yes, the well known paradox of sea travel, where you are literally surrounded by billions of gallons of water, yet you can drink none of it. Ridiculous.
@@pepsirag457so why don't you send them some then? Or better again take a year out of your life and build a well. Someone says there grateful for what they have then you go and try guilt them for it🤷♂️, also have you seen how your battery in your phone is made? Little kids forced into hazardous mines so you could write your Virtue signaling comment If we all went around looking for pats on the back like you then who would pay for your welfare benefits.
I always figured that since pirates spent so much time in coastal areas that they rarely had bad water. It's only on extended cruises that water became an issue. Big problem for naval ships, but not so much for pirates. Some scientists in Scandanavia recently did an experiment where they put pure water into a clean wooden barrel and within a week or so it was no longer potable.
I think I may have thought of why not just boil the sea water and catch the steam. To do this they would need to consume the use of firewood in their cargo space. To get more firewood so they can boil more water they would need to go to land. But if they go to land then it would be more effective to just gather the fresh water on the land.
In theory they could have glass desalination containers made. Use sunlight to evaporate water and condense it on a shaded container. This wouldn't produce enough water to sustain everyone, but it could supplement. Also, I'm not sure they knew that was possible back then.
@@georgeofhamiltonnot only are you annoying, but you're wrong. Are is technically correct here. Not only is bacteria not a singular Mass noun but the plural form of a singular noun, but are would be correct even if it were an uncountable noun. Mass nouns can be plural, and in the case of living things (animacy), this is often the case. There are people here. There are cattle here. And yes, there are bacteria. It's not incorrect, it's just not common, so it sounds weird. I would be fine to ignore that, and not make a deal of calling someone out on such a mistake, but that sort of thing seems important to you.
Even on modern commercial fishing boats with all sizes in range, water storage is key, personally I have a 50 foot fishing schooner with a 500 gallon water tank made from steel. I carry a high capacity of water but as a general rule you never want to drink unfiltered water, in pirates days it’s the equivalent of 10 barrels
@@wally9935 yeah just like fuel tanks which just are compartments integrated into the hull, usually between two bulkheads or off to the sides under the decks. there is at least one water tank, and really A boat of any modest size is no different than an RV as far as functionality and basic systems. The bigger they get the more complex
Thank you for this, I had always thought pirates stored and treated water the same way that the Navy did, however this is a great point that they weren't making long planned trips across the ocean but hanging around populated islands and harbouring regularly
Not just pirates...It's noted in the letters of the Mayflower passengers that the Pilgrims had to drink through clenched teeth to keep from swallowing some kind of larvae that was in the drinking water. Apparently the crew was used to the problem.
I love your content I would love to see you project your voice at the end of your sentences you often trail off and it’s almost inaudible keep up the great work and practice projecting more all throughout the entire sentence
In early America they would source the water from lake Drummond in Virginia. The cypress trees caused the water to be too acid to go bad like regular fresh water.
Rum Water is the perfect solution to a sailor. Getting the water to about 3-8% ABV (weak - strong beer levels of alcohol) you pretty much make the water safe for long storage within wooden barrels... and of course... sailors are going to love being able to get a good drink during the day. And while you need the water to stay hydrated, this alcohol level is low enough that you would actually gain some hydration from it. best practice however would be to use this to keep the water from becoming contaminated... then BOIL the water before drinking to burn off the actual alcohol... that way you are getting maximum hydration for your buck. (alcohol is a diuretic and will cause overall water loss through urination if you drink too much)
@@floatingchimney on an old style ship... it would be nearly impossible to boil enough water for everyone to drink without setting the ship ablaze. gotta think... those old Sailing vessels crammed upwards of 200 people or more inside them. to boil enough water daily for 200 people to drink... not to mention all the firewood or coal needed to maintain a fire for that long is just not doable. thus.... Grog... or Watered Down Alcohol was the answer they found.
Oh shit. I learned from Dr. Stone that if his silverware is turning black, that means the bilge water is producing massive amounts of hydrogen sulfide. The damps seems to be hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
Another great video! Well done! I had a question... I watched a past video, and you said that you were gonna do more videos about different pirate jobs, like you did for the Quartermaster. Is that still a plan? I'm real curious to hear about the different jobs...like what the Boatswain (AKA: Bosun) did.
I've got videos planned for pretty much every pirate topic you can consider and then some you can't consider, it's a matter of when, and that I won't reveal
I wouldn't like to be a sailor or pirate before 20th century because of the lack of fresh water and fresh food. We can't live without fresh water and Vitamin C.
When you said that they stole the eord "bumpkin" from the dutch i thought about his words are you of the few (maybe only) things which you can steal but can never give back.
I vaguely remember hearing somethign about how green sea turtles where hunted for fresh water in their bodies. Of course, i have no clue where such an outlandish idea came from because sea turtles dont store water in their bodies and any google search about it yeilds results telling me that sea turtles live in salt water 😂
It wasn't sea turtles it was Galapagos tortoises. They could be flipped upside down and kept for around a year like that without dying, keeping their meat fresh and supposedly the water that some contained in their throats or something.
The water in london 100% was not drinkable for many many citizens. The outbreaks recorded in history don't lie after all. Now in other places the water might have been better. But the issue was with the Thames.
wash in salt, rinse in sweet. The great dismal swamp was long the prefered water by many crews. The water there was full of tannic acid, leaching from the swamps' trees. It's wonderfully clean, a bucketful on the skin feels delightful. so, storing water in oak barrels, putting birch bark in the casks to clean it ....Sailors drank a lot of 'small beer' or 'birch beer' where water and birch are boiled and then canted to be drinking water. maybe you should do a video on that.
Water went bad in barrels so they had to drink wine or beer. For cooking soups or stews they used seawater. To leech salted meat they likely used rainwater that was collected or even the bad water from the barrels that was boiled. The food was so unhealthy on ships a lot of them died during the journey..
I have a question (that you could turn into a video, maybe): Did pirates ever try to sell captured ships? Even a used ship ought to have some resale value. Or, at least take all the cannons, those were pretty valuable, pound for pound.
Now I know this wasn’t really done back in the age of sail, but it is entirely possible to drink sea water if you do a process of desalination first. That does involve removing the salt from the water which would’ve taken up space on the hearth and also required a condenser as I don’t know how else they could’ve done it back then. It would however have provided them with additional salt and could’ve potentially increased voyage duration if done correctly. I just think that could’ve been interesting to see.
Sadly, i think that would require a LOT of wood, and i'm not sure what they could use to catch the vapor, as the only have cloth, which would let most of the steam escape
=DUDE,THAT WAS NOT KNOWN ABOUT BOILED WATER CAN BE STORED MUCH LONGER, THO ..........OTHERWISE, THEY'LL JUST BOIL AND.......STEAM BARRELS......BUT THEY DIDNT KNOW THAT((((
I read that water with tannis acid in it preserves it. Tannis acid water is that brown tinted water you see near pine trees. Like in Florida, Georgia and the Carolians.. Anyone else heard that?
Any acid should help prevent microbial growth. For example, acetic acid (vinegar) is used to preserve food. "Lemonade" (citric acid) would seem an ideal way to store water on an old ship.
I'm surprised they didn't try boiling sea water in one container and into steam pushed through copper tubing and cooling off in to drinkable water in another container. British did this. Awesome video loved the Wow music btw !
I found myself thinking about why pirates tended to favour wooden bumpkins for storing water even though the Spanish-style clay jars were, in many ways, superior vessels for holding water and other consumable items with less risk of bacterial growth or contamination. Availability would definitely have been an issue--pirates who didn't begin their expeditions in Spanish ports would have only been able to obtain those clay jars via "borrowing" them from Spanish ships, and there was no guarantee that they'd even run into a Spanish vessel on the sea, much less be able to make her strike her colours so they could help themselves to whatever goodies she had on board. But I conjecture that the greater reason why non-Spanish pirates didn't make their own clay storage containers (clay isn't hard to find on most islands, and even a child can make a simple, rough clay jar) may have largely been questions of durability and convenience of repair. You can easily repair a wooden barrel by reinforcing it with additional material, and it takes a significantly stronger impact to completely shatter a wooden barrel than it would for a clay jar. Moreover, wooden barrels when damaged will typically not shatter into scores of pieces, spilling their contents everywhere. By contrast, let a clay jar fall from the main deck into the cargo hold, and it'll explode like a small bomb when it hits the floor. And whilst you can glue together a shattered clay or porcelain vessel--the Japanese, incidentally make an art of this which they call _kintsugi_ --this is not as easy as simply nailing some more iron strips across a wooden barrel to reinforce it. Incidentally, elemental chlorine was entirely unknown during the Golden Age of Piracy--the element wouldn't be isolated until 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. However, compounds containing chlorine, like ammonium chloride (and of course, sodium chloride) were known since medieval times, although I don't know of anyone--including pirates--using ammonium chloride to attempt to disinfect drinking water, or even whether this is possible, as the ions on the ammonium chloride may not necessarily have an antimicrobial effect any more than the ions of sodium chloride do.
one big no-no was storing water in casks that held port, brandy or wine. especially wine for some reason. extremely dangerous. The Princess Agusta's passengers went down in 1738 mostly for this reason. of course wine was by far the most popular beverage at the time of the golden age, not rum like some stupid Disney movie has us believe. Rum was more of a specialty, like in Port Royal Jamaica, but quite unpopular everywhere else.
I could be working right now, but then I wouldn't know what the drinking water situation was on pirate ships...
very true
Priorities 👍
stuff like that is vitally important, you made a fantastic choice
😂
History is so rich. And so are tales in general. If you hath any sort of empathy at all it’s easy to try to imagine the shit people went through in times past. It’s so fantastical to think what we once overcame and were subjected to on simple principles like honor or duty.
you WILL drink the piss
you WILL eat bug-infested hardtack
you WILL sleep on the deck
and you WILL be happy
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Sounds like a WPF quote (World Pirate Forum) 🤣
1684
Yeah but I am the captain... hmmmm..😁.
You will embrace this or die
Ahahahhaha
Ah yes, the well known paradox of sea travel, where you are literally surrounded by billions of gallons of water, yet you can drink none of it. Ridiculous.
I love irony, on a similar vein
Flint
@@liammadden7572damn dude. That was rough
Water,water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink.
Then again if salt didn’t dissolve in water we wouldn’t exist at all.
@@ksnare77Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink
Imagine a time traveller handing them cans of chilled RedBull
A cold can of redbull would vaporize a pirate on the spot
Then they could skip sailing and just fly there. Red bull gives you wings after all.
@@Seth-mu3wohahahahaa yup 😂
@@tomorowsnobodysyou think?
Pirates: wizard... Black vooodooo meh~gik😈😂
I'm grateful to live in a time where potable water is easy to obtain and even filtering water on hand is easy, too.
We need to be cautious and assertive so Nestlé doesn’t take that away from us 😢
We live like kings
You're an idiot!
You mean, you live in a country fortunate enough to have easy/obtainable/filterable drinking water. Many dont.
@@pepsirag457so why don't you send them some then? Or better again take a year out of your life and build a well.
Someone says there grateful for what they have then you go and try guilt them for it🤷♂️, also have you seen how your battery in your phone is made? Little kids forced into hazardous mines so you could write your Virtue signaling comment
If we all went around looking for pats on the back like you then who would pay for your welfare benefits.
That World of Warcraft background music fits so well 😁👍
I knew I heard it
Stranglethorn vale . I caught it a minuet in lol. Takes me back.
@@jasonbennett1667me too lol I was like "wait, is that..?"
I always figured that since pirates spent so much time in coastal areas that they rarely had bad water. It's only on extended cruises that water became an issue. Big problem for naval ships, but not so much for pirates. Some scientists in Scandanavia recently did an experiment where they put pure water into a clean wooden barrel and within a week or so it was no longer potable.
they should have had another barrel where all the scientists took terms jerking off into
Isn’t that why they used alcohol spirits mixed in AKA grog…. Or brewed low alcohol content beer like ancient Sumerians
Can someone explain what potable is please
Edit: it means safe to drink 😂
@@Pwnulolumad at around 11:09 he says in the video that they didn't drink grog, that came about after the golden age of pirates
@@IvanhoeWolfe-zn6fccharring is halfway to activated charcoal which is antiseptic, absorbs toxins and filters etc
I too love the consumption of hydrogen monoxide
true
Nothing like a cold glass of OH¯
I think I may have thought of why not just boil the sea water and catch the steam.
To do this they would need to consume the use of firewood in their cargo space. To get more firewood so they can boil more water they would need to go to land.
But if they go to land then it would be more effective to just gather the fresh water on the land.
That's a problem even to this day - water desalination requires large amounts of energy.
Also they wouldn’t have been equipped with very effective catching measures. At best they’d have lost most of it.
In theory they could have glass desalination containers made. Use sunlight to evaporate water and condense it on a shaded container.
This wouldn't produce enough water to sustain everyone, but it could supplement. Also, I'm not sure they knew that was possible back then.
@@lobsterbark I suppose they also thought that the morning fog was just the spirits of their ancestors rising from the earth with the rest of society.
Distilled water is no good either to drink. Except if you are a fan of brain-swelling, that is.
In beer, there is courage.
In wine, there is wisdom.
In water, there are bacteria.
You must’ve drunk a lot of wine to have the wisdom to use “bacteria” as a plural noun instead of a singular, noncountable noun.
@@georgeofhamilton Pirates didn't have to fear Ze Grammar Nazi's until much later.
In wisky there is wonder.
in Rum, there is happiness.
@@georgeofhamiltonnot only are you annoying, but you're wrong. Are is technically correct here. Not only is bacteria not a singular Mass noun but the plural form of a singular noun, but are would be correct even if it were an uncountable noun. Mass nouns can be plural, and in the case of living things (animacy), this is often the case. There are people here. There are cattle here. And yes, there are bacteria. It's not incorrect, it's just not common, so it sounds weird. I would be fine to ignore that, and not make a deal of calling someone out on such a mistake, but that sort of thing seems important to you.
Even on modern commercial fishing boats with all sizes in range, water storage is key, personally I have a 50 foot fishing schooner with a 500 gallon water tank made from steel. I carry a high capacity of water but as a general rule you never want to drink unfiltered water, in pirates days it’s the equivalent of 10 barrels
Just curious where to you pull the water from? Are there water tanks of drinkable water at marinas where boats like yours are stored?
@@wally9935 yeah just like fuel tanks which just are compartments integrated into the hull, usually between two bulkheads or off to the sides under the decks. there is at least one water tank, and really A boat of any modest size is no different than an RV as far as functionality and basic systems. The bigger they get the more complex
You mention that one should not drink unfiltered water, do ships have filters this days?
Yes
Said the barrels held 150 gallons.... 150x10≠500
A lawful man only drinks rum
cum*
Jack sparrow drank rum
As all legends do. 😄
Would recognize that stranglethorn Vietnam music anywhere…
Always cool to hear about logistics of pirates and ships in general for this time period. Very different from most of the scenes shown in media.
It makes you want to get up & pour a nice cold glass of ice water, man we're blessed now a days.
It’s true. We live in such a great time in terms of having our material needs met.
More than a couple of beers in after work, and have never been more interested in how pirates drank their water. Bless you brother.
"Why is the rum gone?"
-Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp)
Interesting documentary! You've earned a like & subscriber. I enjoy your narration & commentary on historical subjects. Cheers! 🍻
I'm so happy to live in a country where the tap water is drinkable :)
Just stay away from Jackson and you'll be fine.
Me to😁Norway is the best🤩
Thankful
Iceland
Unless you live in America
Thank you for this, I had always thought pirates stored and treated water the same way that the Navy did, however this is a great point that they weren't making long planned trips across the ocean but hanging around populated islands and harbouring regularly
London’s water is still yucky to us Scots at least, my friend went over there and it was so bad he had to buy Scottish bottled water
always bring an irn bru
pure wa'er, Scottish wa'er
If it's not Scotch it's crap.
Because if it’s not Scottish it’s crap 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Not just pirates...It's noted in the letters of the Mayflower passengers that the Pilgrims had to drink through clenched teeth to keep from swallowing some kind of larvae that was in the drinking water. Apparently the crew was used to the problem.
I’ve been binging your videos for days now, thank you for your videos
thank you
To quote Smoky and the Bandit " because he's thirsty dummy"
Just wanted to say that your channel have bin very helpful in my world building tabletop rpg project.
Silver is actually anti microbial. And is a great metal for holding water. But then again it’s not cheap.
Copper can do the same but it wasn't cheap enough either. So pirates had copper pots only for cooking.
@@minhducnguyen9276how much to ML???
Love the tirisfal OST in the background. Smart touch.
Gotta stay hydrated!
I love your content I would love to see you project your voice at the end of your sentences you often trail off and it’s almost inaudible keep up the great work and practice projecting more all throughout the entire sentence
I'm grateful that I randomly stumbled upon this video. Subscribed
I love your channel bro! a hail here from Brazil
It truly astonishes me that humans learned to map the stars and seasons MILLENNIA before we figured out to boil water before drinking it.
All night long I can look up and see stars. How many germs do you see on a regular basis?
@@ev6558 How much water do you drink?
It's the same thing today people don't believe what they can see with there own eyes but believe in something that has never been seen before
@@mikehunntt5338 But nobody put the pieces together that people didn't get sick if the water was first boiled.
@@ToastyMcGrath I'm sure it was the same thing with cooking meat just like a doctor was more experienced with the more blood he was covered in lol
In early America they would source the water from lake Drummond in Virginia. The cypress trees caused the water to be too acid to go bad like regular fresh water.
Rum Water is the perfect solution to a sailor. Getting the water to about 3-8% ABV (weak - strong beer levels of alcohol) you pretty much make the water safe for long storage within wooden barrels... and of course... sailors are going to love being able to get a good drink during the day. And while you need the water to stay hydrated, this alcohol level is low enough that you would actually gain some hydration from it.
best practice however would be to use this to keep the water from becoming contaminated... then BOIL the water before drinking to burn off the actual alcohol... that way you are getting maximum hydration for your buck. (alcohol is a diuretic and will cause overall water loss through urination if you drink too much)
Couldnt you just boil water before drinking it?
@@floatingchimney on an old style ship... it would be nearly impossible to boil enough water for everyone to drink without setting the ship ablaze.
gotta think... those old Sailing vessels crammed upwards of 200 people or more inside them. to boil enough water daily for 200 people to drink... not to mention all the firewood or coal needed to maintain a fire for that long is just not doable.
thus.... Grog... or Watered Down Alcohol was the answer they found.
Oh shit. I learned from Dr. Stone that if his silverware is turning black, that means the bilge water is producing massive amounts of hydrogen sulfide. The damps seems to be hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
why did i recognize the WoW music right away
Another great video! Well done! I had a question...
I watched a past video, and you said that you were gonna do more videos about different pirate jobs, like you did for the Quartermaster. Is that still a plan? I'm real curious to hear about the different jobs...like what the Boatswain (AKA: Bosun) did.
I've got videos planned for pretty much every pirate topic you can consider and then some you can't consider, it's a matter of when, and that I won't reveal
I like the stranglethorne vale music in the background
You have a great Transylvanian voice. Good vids and dry humour. 🇦🇺
I wasn't ready for the world of Warcraft background music
Love the stranglethorn vale background music
Incredible presentation.
I wouldn't like to be a sailor or pirate before 20th century because of the lack of fresh water and fresh food. We can't live without fresh water and Vitamin C.
When you said that they stole the eord "bumpkin" from the dutch i thought about his words are you of the few (maybe only) things which you can steal but can never give back.
I vaguely remember hearing somethign about how green sea turtles where hunted for fresh water in their bodies. Of course, i have no clue where such an outlandish idea came from because sea turtles dont store water in their bodies and any google search about it yeilds results telling me that sea turtles live in salt water 😂
Was it for the blood?
It wasn't sea turtles it was Galapagos tortoises. They could be flipped upside down and kept for around a year like that without dying, keeping their meat fresh and supposedly the water that some contained in their throats or something.
This videos are so relaxing and interesting 👌
The water in london 100% was not drinkable for many many citizens. The outbreaks recorded in history don't lie after all. Now in other places the water might have been better. But the issue was with the Thames.
wash in salt, rinse in sweet. The great dismal swamp was long the prefered water by many crews. The water there was full of tannic acid, leaching from the swamps' trees. It's wonderfully clean, a bucketful on the skin feels delightful. so, storing water in oak barrels, putting birch bark in the casks to clean it ....Sailors drank a lot of 'small beer' or 'birch beer' where water and birch are boiled and then canted to be drinking water. maybe you should do a video on that.
Loving the Wow soundtrack opening track.
Stranglethorn Vale background music is a nice added touch.
The -Sven Nordquist, I believe- illustrations look amazing
Awesome, the Booty bay music from World of Warcraft is phenomenal with the video!
HYDRATE OR DYDRATE BRUVAS!
I love the stranglethorn OST in the background
your videos are so good
I swear...the majority of Us have completely forgotten JUST HOW HARD Life was for MANY of Us during this era of time...
Very good video once more. An interesting topic. 🏴☠🚰
Water went bad in barrels so they had to drink wine or beer. For cooking soups or stews they used seawater. To leech salted meat they likely used rainwater that was collected or even the bad water from the barrels that was boiled. The food was so unhealthy on ships a lot of them died during the journey..
I have a question (that you could turn into a video, maybe):
Did pirates ever try to sell captured ships? Even a used ship ought to have some resale value. Or, at least take all the cannons, those were pretty valuable, pound for pound.
pirates no, privateers yes
Ah yes.
One is Private Sector..
The other is Government Sector .
😂
Now I know this wasn’t really done back in the age of sail, but it is entirely possible to drink sea water if you do a process of desalination first. That does involve removing the salt from the water which would’ve taken up space on the hearth and also required a condenser as I don’t know how else they could’ve done it back then. It would however have provided them with additional salt and could’ve potentially increased voyage duration if done correctly. I just think that could’ve been interesting to see.
L8ll
Interesting idea!
Sadly, i think that would require a LOT of wood, and i'm not sure what they could use to catch the vapor, as the only have cloth, which would let most of the steam escape
I love this channel
I've spent too much time in stranglethorn vale to not recognize that tune...
Daily reminder that you have to drink water
Reminder to don't drink water. Did you know that a 100% of people who drank water throughout history died?!
fact
🚰🚰🚰
@@patron8597 the same happened to all people who breat air, what a coincidence
so true
this music is from stranglethorn vale in world of warcraft and yet fits so well XD
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. "Water, water, everywhere not a drop to drink"
Love the Stranglethorn Vale Music
Any particular reason you chose the soundtrack of Stranglethorn Vale for the background music?
I love the usage of world of Warcraft music! (Stranglethorn I am not mistaken) takes me back
Yeah buddy
I love the barrens theme lol❤
Is it stranglethorn vale soundtrack from WoW playing on the background ?
Music from Wow booty bay? 😅 nostalgia hit hard...
Nice wow music bro, good video
Nice WoW music/ambience in the background 😊 STV?
The WoW background theme. LOL. It often plays when pirates are around too.
Rum punch sounds delightful
Was the rum distilled in a lead still? I haven't seen much use of copper in images or information in your videos!
it's near impossible to find images, copper was used
i like the world of warcraft music playing behind
The efed up thing is that most ships had a still for making rum.
couldn't they have just strained the stagnant water and then boiled it before drinking?
=DUDE,THAT WAS NOT KNOWN ABOUT BOILED WATER CAN BE STORED MUCH LONGER, THO
..........OTHERWISE, THEY'LL JUST BOIL AND.......STEAM BARRELS......BUT THEY DIDNT KNOW THAT((((
lol i just logged out of wow and clicked on this video and wondered why i'm still hearing the music
Wich was the longest travel on the period and how did they store food and water for it?
I read that water with tannis acid in it preserves it.
Tannis acid water is that brown tinted water you see near pine trees. Like in Florida, Georgia and the Carolians..
Anyone else heard that?
Any acid should help prevent microbial growth.
For example, acetic acid (vinegar) is used to preserve food.
"Lemonade" (citric acid) would seem an ideal way to store water on an old ship.
I'm surprised they didn't try boiling sea water in one container and into steam pushed through copper tubing and cooling off in to drinkable water in another container. British did this.
Awesome video loved the Wow music btw !
That STV music in the beginning. kino
Nice choice of music, Strangle Thorn Vale from World of Warcraft!
Feeling like I’m stuck in the barons again with this music choice
I found myself thinking about why pirates tended to favour wooden bumpkins for storing water even though the Spanish-style clay jars were, in many ways, superior vessels for holding water and other consumable items with less risk of bacterial growth or contamination. Availability would definitely have been an issue--pirates who didn't begin their expeditions in Spanish ports would have only been able to obtain those clay jars via "borrowing" them from Spanish ships, and there was no guarantee that they'd even run into a Spanish vessel on the sea, much less be able to make her strike her colours so they could help themselves to whatever goodies she had on board.
But I conjecture that the greater reason why non-Spanish pirates didn't make their own clay storage containers (clay isn't hard to find on most islands, and even a child can make a simple, rough clay jar) may have largely been questions of durability and convenience of repair. You can easily repair a wooden barrel by reinforcing it with additional material, and it takes a significantly stronger impact to completely shatter a wooden barrel than it would for a clay jar. Moreover, wooden barrels when damaged will typically not shatter into scores of pieces, spilling their contents everywhere. By contrast, let a clay jar fall from the main deck into the cargo hold, and it'll explode like a small bomb when it hits the floor.
And whilst you can glue together a shattered clay or porcelain vessel--the Japanese, incidentally make an art of this which they call _kintsugi_ --this is not as easy as simply nailing some more iron strips across a wooden barrel to reinforce it.
Incidentally, elemental chlorine was entirely unknown during the Golden Age of Piracy--the element wouldn't be isolated until 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. However, compounds containing chlorine, like ammonium chloride (and of course, sodium chloride) were known since medieval times, although I don't know of anyone--including pirates--using ammonium chloride to attempt to disinfect drinking water, or even whether this is possible, as the ions on the ammonium chloride may not necessarily have an antimicrobial effect any more than the ions of sodium chloride do.
That's strangle thorn Vale music from wow. Takes me back.
Dude this is the ambient music in Stranglethorn Vale
What about grog? I thought it was water with enough bozze to kill the bugs and lime or lemon to kill scurvy...
love the Stranglethorn Vale music
It's interesting they used alcohol in water storage as a disinfectant, it's not too different than the use of chlorine in municipal water today
that world of warcraft soundtrack is burned into my brain forever
Most outstanding!!!
one big no-no was storing water in casks that held port, brandy or wine. especially wine for some reason. extremely dangerous. The Princess Agusta's passengers went down in 1738 mostly for this reason. of course wine was by far the most popular beverage at the time of the golden age, not rum like some stupid Disney movie has us believe. Rum was more of a specialty, like in Port Royal Jamaica, but quite unpopular everywhere else.
All I know is there was a well/aqueduct that was made drinkable and to celebrate they filled it with wine
+1 sub, this is gold
I love the wow music
Agua mi niño agua!
Love the WOW music