The Life Of A Seaman During The Stuart Age

Putting myself in the the position of a sailor back in that time I can see why many were attracted to the life of a pirate. The life of a sea faring man during the early 18th century was a grueling way of work. Wages were low, decease was rampant, ships were cramped, and discipline from officers was brutal, sometime murderous. The pirate life symbolized freedom and liberty and a brotherhood that stood for being “ one for

Have you ever watched the movie Pirates of the Caribbean? If you have you may or may not think that’s how the life of a pirate was in the 1700s. This is necessarily true though. I believe that the life of a pirate is not as glamorous as Hollywood portrays

Major Works Data Sheet Billy Budd 1. Title: Billy Budd 2. Author: Herman Melville 3. Date of Publication: 1924 (posthumously) 4. Historical Information: As divulged to the reader, Billy Budd takes place in 1797 in the midst of the French Revolution. Throughout the mid- 1790s, Britain enacted new quota requirements to enlist 45,000 men in the Royal Navy,

Each sailor has an important position on the ship as it sails its goods to other parts of the

“The company in England was convinced by 1609 that the settlers would have to grow at least part of their own food,”(page 5, Morgan). The settlers had to step up since Indian labor plan was not going to work well. The task they had to accomplish depended on their life. Settlers had to work from five in the morning to around eight at night. Winter conditions changed the time a little by taking off about 2 hours. Complaints started coming up about laziness and irresponsibility from the workmen. People started raising prices to survive. Men were always hungry barely having the energy to work. That was one of the excuses some men brought up to explain why there working they way they are. The author explains more indebt of the laziness and problems. Even men with large amounts of land could not afford labors. The government issued laws for problems with work and labor, “ Sometimes men were obliged to take on a poor boy as a servant whether they needed him or not. The parish might lighten the burden by paying a fee, but it might also fine a man who refused to take a boy assigned to him,”(page 7, Morgan). Things were falling apart.

In addition, the living quarters were tiny, “One person receives a place of scarcely 2 feet width and 6 feet length in the bedstead, while many a ship carries four to six hundred souls” (Mittelberger, “On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants”). Over the span of the trip, settlers were overcome with disease, dying before they could reach their destination. Mothers who died were thrown overboard with their infants. An account by an indentured servant gives insight into their lives, it reads,“tied up and whipp’d to that Degree that you’d not serve an Animal, scarce any thing but Indian Corn and Salt to eat… almost naked no shoes nor stockings to wear.” Indentured servants were beaten if they were disobedient to their masters, were barely given anything to eat, and barely

Before Christmas 1606, three ships left London’s Blackwall docks to establish a settlement on Chesapeake Bay, in the New World. The largest ship was heavily armed with 120-ton merchantman, carried seventy-one passengers and crew, including the experienced commander of the fleet, Captain Newport; a highly successful privateer. The second ship known as Godspeed followed with fifty-two men on board, while bringing up on third was the tiny pinnace Discovery, which carried twenty-one men crammed together trying to survive the voyage with few space and very limited supplies. Altogether, thirty-nine mariners and 105 adventurers set out to found what would be England’s first permanent colony in America.

Marcus Rediker’s main point is the Atlantic Pirates were a group of highly intelligent people that unfortunately were forced to a criminal life because it was their only means to Survive. They were intelligent in the reason of choosing to attack the America colonies, but also in the way the pirates made their own governing structure. According to Dr. Rediker “a compact drawn up at the beginning of a voyage or upon election of a new captain, and agreed to by the crew. By these articles crews allocated authority, distributed plunder, and enforced discipline. These arrangements made the captain the creature of his crew”.(Rediker 209). These pirates knew that they had recently escaped a system of oppression that had done them wrong in many ways. This is why they made a system where everyone counted and where everyone got what they deserved. In a way they kept each other on check. An example of this today would be friend making sure another friend doesn’t cheat on his

Unlike the slave at the time if you found yourself on a slave boat and was a captain, you would have the best and somewhat safest job on the ship. The captain is described in document B, in a collection of Voyages and Travels by Thomas Phillips. The captain must have a reasonable live sections on the ship if the boat is a “Royal African Company” (Doc. B) ship. Since that captain need to be organized and neat to map and navigate were he is going he would also need a large clean space for that as well. In this passage the captain describes himself taking care of the ship and cleaning the floors, which would have been the crew work to do. He tries to stay away from saying that his place is large, but you can infer that from the

“I wonder if he will now presume to change the name of the other two ships, the small one who they playfully call 'the girl' and the third one” he chuckled, “called 'the painted one'?” He walked slowly toward a crowded corner of the shop, bracing himself on a nearby shelf. His rounded shoulders were still broad but age had tilted them. As he continued toward an opened crate full of iron bowls, one foot dragged on the wooden floor. “You would think that his mission was to transport a cargo of priests.” He said to himself. “Who would be deeply offended to ride aboard a ship named to commemorate whores; but what else can sailors think of when they have been at sea for so long? “ he rested again occupying himself by pretending to straighten brushes in a jar. “Must your Captain refer to these ships in such holy terms that daydreaming sailors mentally wrestling? The holy or the damned” another chuckle escaped from his silent thoughts.

“In 1606, John Smith boarded a ship at Blackwall, London. By nightfall most of the other passengers and crewmen had crowded into the hundred-ton flagship Susan Constant.” This would be the journey for England to begin their expedition to America, more specifically

One reason this would be good for a change is because it encourages you to be hardworking, even when the going gets tough. You have to take care of all the animals, day or night. You also have to be able to stay on the ship without getting seasick. Even though this might be tough and could hurt, it will surely encourage you, and all others, to do something

When most Voyageurs reached land, they were thoroughly disappointed. A great portion of the drive to become a Voyageur was the promise of riches and fame when they returned to their journey. Unfortunately, a great fraction of the time the Voyageurs returned to their birthplace to discover that their families were not loyal to them any longer. Wives remarried and had other children, and children all but forgot who they were. The cause for this to happen was only partially caused by time apart-the voyageurs were often looked upon by some as dirty men without manners, some eating their rations from their pockets or hats. But the separation is understandable. These restriction caused many complications. The average age a voyageur started working

I have the opportunity to meet people from around the globe. Working on the shipboard and travel by the sea can be a very dangerous situation. On the other hand, I can explore the nature and wildlife of the deep blue sea. The seaman's duties do not only involve how to live and survive in the shipboard but also to rescue life at the sea.

The Seafarer by Burton Raffel was written during the Anglo-Saxon period where the Anglo-Saxon warriors lived to defend their King, like in the story Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. One of the warriors speaks about his challenges and begins saying that his story is not at all joyful. It is a story full of pain and suffering. The story paints a picture of what it means to be “dislocated”, “set out”, all by oneself and how badly it feels. “My feet were cast in icy bands, bound with frost,with frozen chains, and hardship groaned around my heart. Hunger tore at my sea-weary soul. No man sheltered on the quiet fairness of earth can feel how wretched I was”.(Raffel 1) The powerful imagery in this stanza sets the tone that the narrator is trying to