Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea, 1st Edition Lights representing Oman's military heritage

representing Oman's military heritage

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Introduction – Ship – Goods – Other movables – Freight – The Assured –

Author: CDI

Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea, 1st Edition Lights representing Oman's military heritageConfined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a