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Pirate Utopias (Do or Die)
Punishments available to the ship's officers included manacling, flogging and keel-hauling - the victim being pulled by means of a rope under the hull of the ship from one side to the other. Keel-hauling was a punishment which often proved fatal."(3) As Dr. Johnson famously observed: "no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get ...
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A Two Millennial Heritage
For triremes and long ships are made of silver-fir, because it does not decaybut the keel for a trireme is made of oak, that it may stand the hauling. However oak wood does not join well with glue on to fir or silver-fir; for the one is of close, ...
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