Three sailors were also court-martialed. One of the men imprisoned broke some rule and received eighteen lashes. He was afterward tried and got twelve months' imprisonment and his discharge.
Sailors served side-by-side with African mariners ... Although the 1807 Act of Abolition prohibited the trade in British territories, it was only in the 1820s that the emancipation movement ...
Sailors served side-by-side with African mariners of the Kru people — without whom ... Although the 1807 Act of Abolition prohibited the trade in British territories, it was only in the 1820s that the ...
but will not have raced together again until the Women's America's Cup in Barcelona in September The British sailors seeking to make history at the inaugural Women's America's Cup have been announced.
For Daniel Guerra, an aspiring Brazilian sailor keen to travel the world, the job ad was a dream come true. A British yacht owner was seeking two deck-hands to help sail his boat from Brazil ...
The cost of living crisis, obesity and ultra-processed foods in diets may be to blame for people not getting enough vitamin C and developing scurvy, doctors say. Scurvy was common among British ...