Drinking Water on a Pirate Ship | Pirate Food 

I could be working right now, but then I wouldn't know what the drinking water situation was on pirate ships...

Ah yes, the well known paradox of sea travel, where you are literally surrounded by billions of gallons of water, yet you can drink none of it. Ridiculous.

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I'm grateful to live in a time where potable water is easy to obtain and even filtering water on hand is easy, too.

I always figured that since pirates spent so much time in coastal areas that they rarely had bad water. It's only on extended cruises that water became an issue. Big problem for naval ships, but not so much for pirates. Some scientists in Scandanavia recently did an experiment where they put pure water into a clean wooden barrel and within a week or so it was no longer potable.

That World of Warcraft background music fits so well 😁👍

In beer, there is courage. In wine, there is wisdom. In water, there are bacteria.

Imagine a time traveller handing them cans of chilled RedBull

I think I may have thought of why not just boil the sea water and catch the steam. To do this they would need to consume the use of firewood in their cargo space. To get more firewood so they can boil more water they would need to go to land. But if they go to land then it would be more effective to just gather the fresh water on the land.

Even on modern commercial fishing boats with all sizes in range, water storage is key, personally I have a 50 foot fishing schooner with a 500 gallon water tank made from steel. I carry a high capacity of water but as a general rule you never want to drink unfiltered water, in pirates days it’s the equivalent of 10 barrels

Always cool to hear about logistics of pirates and ships in general for this time period. Very different from most of the scenes shown in media.

I too love the consumption of hydrogen monoxide

It makes you want to get up & pour a nice cold glass of ice water, man we're blessed now a days.

A lawful man only drinks rum

More than a couple of beers in after work, and have never been more interested in how pirates drank their water. Bless you brother.

I'm so happy to live in a country where the tap water is drinkable :)

Thank you for this, I had always thought pirates stored and treated water the same way that the Navy did, however this is a great point that they weren't making long planned trips across the ocean but hanging around populated islands and harbouring regularly

Silver is actually anti microbial. And is a great metal for holding water. But then again it’s not cheap.

London’s water is still yucky to us Scots at least, my friend went over there and it was so bad he had to buy Scottish bottled water

"Why is the rum gone?" -Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp)

Would recognize that stranglethorn Vietnam music anywhere…

Not just pirates...It's noted in the letters of the Mayflower passengers that the Pilgrims had to drink through clenched teeth to keep from swallowing some kind of larvae that was in the drinking water. Apparently the crew was used to the problem.

To quote Smoky and the Bandit " because he's thirsty dummy"

Rum Water is the perfect solution to a sailor. Getting the water to about 3-8% ABV (weak - strong beer levels of alcohol) you pretty much make the water safe for long storage within wooden barrels... and of course... sailors are going to love being able to get a good drink during the day. And while you need the water to stay hydrated, this alcohol level is low enough that you would actually gain some hydration from it. best practice however would be to use this to keep the water from becoming contaminated... then BOIL the water before drinking to burn off the actual alcohol... that way you are getting maximum hydration for your buck. (alcohol is a diuretic and will cause overall water loss through urination if you drink too much)

Love the tirisfal OST in the background. Smart touch.

It truly astonishes me that humans learned to map the stars and seasons MILLENNIA before we figured out to boil water before drinking it.

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In early America they would source the water from lake Drummond in Virginia. The cypress trees caused the water to be too acid to go bad like regular fresh water.

Oh shit. I learned from Dr. Stone that if his silverware is turning black, that means the bilge water is producing massive amounts of hydrogen sulfide. The damps seems to be hydrogen sulfide poisoning.

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I vaguely remember hearing somethign about how green sea turtles where hunted for fresh water in their bodies. Of course, i have no clue where such an outlandish idea came from because sea turtles dont store water in their bodies and any google search about it yeilds results telling me that sea turtles live in salt water 😂

Interesting documentary! You've earned a like & subscriber. I enjoy your narration & commentary on historical subjects. Cheers! 🍻

Gotta stay hydrated!

When you said that they stole the eord "bumpkin" from the dutch i thought about his words are you of the few (maybe only) things which you can steal but can never give back.

wash in salt, rinse in sweet. The great dismal swamp was long the prefered water by many crews. The water there was full of tannic acid, leaching from the swamps' trees. It's wonderfully clean, a bucketful on the skin feels delightful. so, storing water in oak barrels, putting birch bark in the casks to clean it ....Sailors drank a lot of 'small beer' or 'birch beer' where water and birch are boiled and then canted to be drinking water. maybe you should do a video on that.

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why did i recognize the WoW music right away

Loving the Wow soundtrack opening track.

Love the stranglethorn vale background music

I wouldn't like to be a sailor or pirate before 20th century because of the lack of fresh water and fresh food. We can't live without fresh water and Vitamin C.

Water went bad in barrels so they had to drink wine or beer. For cooking soups or stews they used seawater. To leech salted meat they likely used rainwater that was collected or even the bad water from the barrels that was boiled. The food was so unhealthy on ships a lot of them died during the journey..

The water in london 100% was not drinkable for many many citizens. The outbreaks recorded in history don't lie after all. Now in other places the water might have been better. But the issue was with the Thames.

I swear...the majority of Us have completely forgotten JUST HOW HARD Life was for MANY of Us during this era of time...

Now I know this wasn’t really done back in the age of sail, but it is entirely possible to drink sea water if you do a process of desalination first. That does involve removing the salt from the water which would’ve taken up space on the hearth and also required a condenser as I don’t know how else they could’ve done it back then. It would however have provided them with additional salt and could’ve potentially increased voyage duration if done correctly. I just think that could’ve been interesting to see.

I like the stranglethorne vale music in the background

I wasn't ready for the world of Warcraft background music

I have a question (that you could turn into a video, maybe): Did pirates ever try to sell captured ships? Even a used ship ought to have some resale value. Or, at least take all the cannons, those were pretty valuable, pound for pound.

HYDRATE OR DYDRATE BRUVAS!

Another great video! Well done! I had a question... I watched a past video, and you said that you were gonna do more videos about different pirate jobs, like you did for the Quartermaster. Is that still a plan? I'm real curious to hear about the different jobs...like what the Boatswain (AKA: Bosun) did.

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. "Water, water, everywhere not a drop to drink"

Daily reminder that you have to drink water

I found myself thinking about why pirates tended to favour wooden bumpkins for storing water even though the Spanish-style clay jars were, in many ways, superior vessels for holding water and other consumable items with less risk of bacterial growth or contamination. Availability would definitely have been an issue--pirates who didn't begin their expeditions in Spanish ports would have only been able to obtain those clay jars via "borrowing" them from Spanish ships, and there was no guarantee that they'd even run into a Spanish vessel on the sea, much less be able to make her strike her colours so they could help themselves to whatever goodies she had on board. But I conjecture that the greater reason why non-Spanish pirates didn't make their own clay storage containers (clay isn't hard to find on most islands, and even a child can make a simple, rough clay jar) may have largely been questions of durability and convenience of repair. You can easily repair a wooden barrel by reinforcing it with additional material, and it takes a significantly stronger impact to completely shatter a wooden barrel than it would for a clay jar. Moreover, wooden barrels when damaged will typically not shatter into scores of pieces, spilling their contents everywhere. By contrast, let a clay jar fall from the main deck into the cargo hold, and it'll explode like a small bomb when it hits the floor. And whilst you can glue together a shattered clay or porcelain vessel--the Japanese, incidentally make an art of this which they call _kintsugi_ --this is not as easy as simply nailing some more iron strips across a wooden barrel to reinforce it. Incidentally, elemental chlorine was entirely unknown during the Golden Age of Piracy--the element wouldn't be isolated until 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. However, compounds containing chlorine, like ammonium chloride (and of course, sodium chloride) were known since medieval times, although I don't know of anyone--including pirates--using ammonium chloride to attempt to disinfect drinking water, or even whether this is possible, as the ions on the ammonium chloride may not necessarily have an antimicrobial effect any more than the ions of sodium chloride do.

I love your content I would love to see you project your voice at the end of your sentences you often trail off and it’s almost inaudible keep up the great work and practice projecting more all throughout the entire sentence

I've spent too much time in stranglethorn vale to not recognize that tune...

I love the stranglethorn OST in the background

couldn't they have just strained the stagnant water and then boiled it before drinking?

You have a great Transylvanian voice. Good vids and dry humour. 🇦🇺

i like the world of warcraft music playing behind

I'm surprised they didn't try boiling sea water in one container and into steam pushed through copper tubing and cooling off in to drinkable water in another container. British did this. Awesome video loved the Wow music btw !

I’ve been binging your videos for days now, thank you for your videos

The efed up thing is that most ships had a still for making rum.

The WoW background theme. LOL. It often plays when pirates are around too.

Feeling like I’m stuck in the barons again with this music choice

Was the rum distilled in a lead still? I haven't seen much use of copper in images or information in your videos!

that world of warcraft soundtrack is burned into my brain forever

Love the Stranglethorn Vale Music

That must have been a MISERABLE way of life...

I love the usage of world of Warcraft music! (Stranglethorn I am not mistaken) takes me back

That's strangle thorn Vale music from wow. Takes me back.

Awesome, the Booty bay music from World of Warcraft is phenomenal with the video!

one big no-no was storing water in casks that held port, brandy or wine. especially wine for some reason. extremely dangerous. The Princess Agusta's passengers went down in 1738 mostly for this reason. of course wine was by far the most popular beverage at the time of the golden age, not rum like some stupid Disney movie has us believe. Rum was more of a specialty, like in Port Royal Jamaica, but quite unpopular everywhere else.

Rum punch sounds delightful

How did pirates guard their treasure ? They killed one of their own. His ghost guarded it. Author. Haunts of San jose

Incredible presentation.

I love the barrens theme lol❤

Stranglethorn Vale background music is a nice added touch.

Any particular reason you chose the soundtrack of Stranglethorn Vale for the background music?

250 gallons of water is 2,500 pounds plus the weight of the barrel. I would like to know more specifically how the crew handled getting these barrels on the ship once they were full

Music from Wow booty bay? 😅 nostalgia hit hard...

this music is from stranglethorn vale in world of warcraft and yet fits so well XD

Am I tripping or is that the Stranglethorn Vale background music from WoW

Nice WoW music/ambience in the background 😊 STV?

That STV music in the beginning. kino

lol i just logged out of wow and clicked on this video and wondered why i'm still hearing the music

love the Stranglethorn Vale music

What about grog? I thought it was water with enough bozze to kill the bugs and lime or lemon to kill scurvy...

"Stiffer than the morning stiffy" That's pretty damn stiff...

Wow STV background music

Dude this is the ambient music in Stranglethorn Vale

Is it stranglethorn vale soundtrack from WoW playing on the background ?

Agua mi niño agua!

The Booty Bay music from WOW fits well

Watching this with a nice big cup of cold water.

Imagine a time traveller handing them cans of chilled RedBull. Imagine a time traveller handing them cans of chilled RedBull.

I haven't watched the full video yet but on the note of alcohol instead of water, its important to know that a lot of pre-modern alcohol wasn't particularly strong. I'm more of a late-medieval history fan but I can't imagine it being too much different in the age of piracy. In medieval history pretty much everybody drank beer or wine. But the brewing processes wasn't so great back then and beer could only expect to be 1-3%, not 4-5% ABV now...I'd imagine this was similar with wine. Idk about age of piracy but i can't imagine them getting hammered everyday and staying dehydrated. So i imagine that with beer at least it would provide a lot of calories, a a warm belly and still hydrate you a little (unlike higher %s, which woukd do the opposite), which is a lot more useful than the presumption that everybody drank modern style alchohl otherwise they'd be drunk all the time.

The -Sven Nordquist, I believe- illustrations look amazing

Why didn’t they just load up with bottled water???

I know it's been said, but dude I cannot fully articulate how much of a miracle it is that I live in a place that not only has the water infrastructure to pipe it into 98% of all buildings in my region, but that water has chemical and physical filtration, and neighboring regions even put chemicals in it to assist dental health. Modern infrastructure has problems of course, lead pipes are insane, but MAN, water infrastructure is such a triumph of human engineering.

damn the world of warcraft soundtrack in the backround is so nice

What about making drinking water from distilled seawater?