Capt. Sterling

Many happy returns of the day Mr. Ohlandt..... now get back to work!!

May wish to pm Jack Roberts here on the pub... he does all our binding for journals and logbooks

Aye, my reputation usually arrives whilst the food is still being served.. Thank ye Captain!

Does the plank hanging over the edge of the wharf have writing on the one end? If so, can anyone read it?

I agree with Jas. I think it is also the barrel of the gun... now the one woman in the foreground is certainly wearing a pointed hat...

As always... thank ye PoD OMG there's freakin Cran standing on the dock talking...

WAIT! Ye know I am always late to such festivities...any idea what time yer singing this? (Yeah I AM a pain in the arse...)

oh.. titled The Martha at Dock. dock scene at a British port 1673

1673 William any chance you can blow up the cargo on the docks, especially what appears to be the dome topped trunks? And anything else of interest... Thanks

And for what its worth: Florence Montgomery's Textiles in America 1650-1870 "Ticking: Linen Twill. According to John Holker's manuscript(prepared about 1750), this material was used for the aprons worn by distillers, brewers, and waiters (swatch no. 31) Savary des Bruslons(Dictionnaire universel de commerce. 1723-30; 6th ed.,5 vols. Geneva: Les Freres Cramer & c. Philibert, 1750-65.) stated that army tents were made of ticking and that it served to enclose feathers in mattresses, bolsters, and pillows. Samples of blue and white and tan and white striped linen coutil, included in a letter from Lyons dated 1775, are in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg. Like so many other linen textiles, these were later made of cotton...." page 363 sorry nothing earlier in this book

Is this the one you mean Mickey? I thought this was slightly later than our time frame, but not by much..

lovely

**looking from breakfast to breakfast** Hmmmm Pew's breakfast or William's breakfast? Oi Pew what's fer lunch?

Wait, does that not...ew...

Well thank ye both...saves my Quartermaster a ton of work...

Well a belief in the Here After and what you had to do in order to get there seems to have played a very important role back then, although I suppose it really made a difference who you were burying as well... Consider: they supposedly sewed Charles II's head back on due to the belief one could not enter Heaven in pieces...if they would go to the trouble to bring Captains back to be buried on land, so as not to have the body disturbed.. being mangled seems have been a problem for them. Remember families used to fight to save the bodies of family members who were hanged for crimes, with bidding wars going on for the bodies, to keep them away from the dissection tables

Hmmm good question. Have not come across anything other than being sewn up in canvas of some sort.. now it may have made a difference for higher ranking crew members as it was stated in Devil and the Deep Blue sea that if it was feasible, they would sail to the closest bit of land to bury them as burying in the ground was thought to be a better guarantee of being "disposed" of properly... What I find interesting is that there is a penalty for not being buried in wool in England but everyone seems to be buried in linen over in the English American colonies during the same time frame...

How about the one where ol' Jameson was torn to shreds right in front of....well ye said...

Kind?! ah well much obliged for the thought... but Kind?!

I obsess over everything... and thank you William

heres the ebay auction where its for sale: http://cgi.ebay.co.u...=item588e16777d Thank ye PoD, will make a lovely addition to all the mourning clothes and grave clothes...

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Oh... very nice..link... there Mistress Dobyns

Ahem... a bit more interested in what it has to say... mind a better photo of the text or can you type it out?

aye we have these...but thanks for contributing what you have come across, I greatly appreciate your time and energy!