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Frank Hopper
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Initially Posted - 09/30/2005 : 11:42:05

[url="http://www.history.navy.mil/trivia/trivia03.htm"]fun site[/url]

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Downbucket
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Response Posted - 09/30/2005 : 16:07:41

Thanks for posting it.

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 09/30/2005 : 18:07:46

For an old trivia buff like me it's a great site!
Derek

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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 09/30/2005 : 19:26:53

Here's another, http://www.goatlocker.org/trivia.htm

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Response Posted - 09/30/2005 : 20:44:35

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Keel hauling
A naval punishment on board ships said to have originated with the Dutch but adopted by other navies during the 15th and 16th centuries. A rope was rigged from yardarm to yardarm, passing under the bottom of the ship, and the unfortunate delinquent secured to it, sometimes with lead or iron weights attached to his legs. He was hoisted up to one yardarm and then dropped suddenly into the sea, hauled underneath the ship, and hoisted up to the opposite yardarm, the punishment being repeated after he had had time to recover his breath. While he was under water, a "great gun" was fired, "which is done as well to astonish him so much the more with the thunder of the shot, as to give warning until all others of the fleet to look out and be wary by his harms" (from Nathaniel Boteler, A Dialogicall Discourse, 1634). The U.S. Navy never practiced keel hauling.
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That was not the description that I had learned in her majesty's service.
The sailor was stretched between two ropes, one to port the other to stbd and tossed overboard.
But he would then be dragged along the keel, (not across it) from stem to stern.
As you can imagine, there were many an obsticle to the swift passage of the crew pulling the lines on each side of the ship, shrouds were typically 8 to 10 feet wide all told.
So the event took quite a while. It was very rare for anyone to survive the experience.
At least me Matey's that's how we wus told!

My old countrymen were a pretty grizzly crowd. Oh Arrrr.

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