What Was Hygiene Like On Pirate Ships
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Pirate ships were dirty - there's no way around it. The life of a pirate was fraught with danger and disease, but the pirates themselves did find ways to clean themselves and their surroundings - at times.
Maintaining hygienic practices on a pirate ship was an uphill battle. Lack of access to clean water, combined with confined living spaces, led to the rapid spread of disease. Harsh elements and inadequate nutrition further contributed to generally poor health. Baths, laundry, and oral hygiene were at a minimum, even with a somewhat surprising amount of medical resources.
#Pirates #Hygiene #WeirdHistory 
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Every time I hear about anything before the age of sanitation I am just constantly amazed we survived as a species.
Just had to be careful where you put your hands and when you put them in your mouth
Eat with your right ,wiped with your left
@@riograul2043 good to find another Man of jerry eating up history videos
😂😂😂😂😂 agreed!
Well the Muslim civilizations had sanitation long before the Europeans got it.
this makes me feel a bit better about my apartment.
clean that shit up , you would feel 100x better
@@mathieumansire372 he probably does I'm pretty sure he cleans and jackoff
@@charlottefannin2796 I do both too😊
This was a well crafted comment, Elliot approves
My hostel 😂
Pirate: I don't wanna be eaten by the Krakken.
Krakken: lmao no way! 🤮🦑
Pirates in books and movies
Romantic, Exotic, Exciting
Pirates in reality
Smelly, floating burglars
"Floating burglars" lmao
Don't forget disease ridden rapists.
🤣🤣🤣🤣👌🏽
Indeed - real-life pirates are literally unromantic, regular, and boring!
Blows my mind how anybody managed to stay alive back then lol
@@fidneusdiller8123 true that!
Thats also why the average man's life expectancy was the ripe ole age of 40-or-so...
That's a problem for you buddy
I hear ya but they wernt the soft handed pussies we have so common today
@@alyciagoode4115 Life is much safer than it was in the past.
Every time I hear about pirates and scurvy, I just feel like eating an entire lemon.
Right? Im gonna go chug a few glasses of OJ lolol
I maintain they are equally as good as there orange brother
gonna go peel one and eat it like an orange 😂
Rickety Cricket has entered the chat
Know what I'm gonna do if I ever get scurvy?
Eat a *whole* bushel of apples.
"Pirates weren't great swimmers"
dude, you've gotta be kidding
I'm afraid he ain't kidding, most pirates couldn't even swim.
Yeah I feel like that's doubtful. Just think, how the fuck is that possible when they bathe in the ocean every other day?
Swimming moves (Australian crawl) and treading water weren't known till the early 1900's. That's why you'll never find swimming athletic competitions until then.
@@stylinstu That doesn't mean anything. People knew how to swim before the 1900's. it's not hard to inhale, kick your feet and kick your legs. I'm sure one person on ship knew how to swim they could just show everyone else on ship.
@@stylinstu swimming is a instinct, most people who dont know how to swin are people who do not have much acess to water, or people who are afraid of water, if you throw a baby in water they will hold their breath automaticly
“Pirates believed in sea monsters” ....this narrator acting like sea monsters don’t actually exist pfft.
We have the colossal squid, that would account as a sea monster to a pirate
@@troysvisualarts well aren't you quite poignant, but you've missed the joke entirely to be politically correct. Boooooo. :(
@@troysvisualarts sea monsters are real. I want to believe.
I mean mad of the ocean has still never been discovered 🤷♂️
sharks, whales, and squids don't count
Q: What was hygiene like on a pirate ship?
A: Non-existent.
💯💯💯
The correct answer was *No*
A: the what?
*theoretical at best...at least to those that could read*
They weathered all of this by staying drunk 90% of the time lol
How I live
The human condition: constantly being under the influence to not have to face reality. Man we are a sad bunch 😕
@@MustObeyTheRules or it just feels good to be lit
Howard yea, escaping reality 😉 here, eat this magic mushroom 😎
@@MustObeyTheRules haha haven't had shrooms in a while ❤
Speaking of pirates, what do you call a pirate with two eyes, two arms, two legs, and no parrot?
The new guy!!!
Lol. Andy England 🇬🇧👍🦜
Lol
I like this comment
😂😂
😂 😂
You know you've reached peak adult when you no longer think living in any era before indoor plumbing/modern medicine would be *_AwEsOmE._*
No one wants to wipe their butt with pine cones.
Apparently in Roman times, some people did have toilets, but they would often be located in the kitchen and there would be a communal rag on a stick for everyone to share. Sounds fun!
@@dannytourigny9403 the community shitstick ❤ i was born in the wrong generation 🙄🙄
@@dannytourigny9403 I don't know if you made or ruined my day, but I laughed pretty hard 😂
Peak adult, more like can't survive without immense comfort and daily pleasures. Clearly life was still worth living even back then, different challenges.
Lol that r Kelly line had me rolling
Same. 😂😂
😭😭😭😂😂😂😂 I paused it to come find someone else. I was like “oh no! Oh no!”😭😭😭
it wasn't that funny, bro lol
Urban Lifestyle really tho r Kelly can't escape that shit... rightfully so of course
I was dead off that🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like how they cleaned the ships but not their clothes or even themselves 🤣 PRIORITIES!
I genuinely have a hard time believing that. Of course they cleaned themselves but only as far as they could.
Uh how were they supposed to clean themselves? They did the best they could with what they had at their disposal
@@OatmealPancake-ej8ky I wonder what they're floating around in. Perhaps that is some kind of clue as to how they would be able to clean themselves.
MoonwalkerWorshiper disgusting salt water full of billions of fish that shit in it lmao
@@MustObeyTheRules So you think the oceans are full of water mixed with feces?
Scurvy was later subsided by the used of limes from the Caribbean...this is why British sailors were known as "Limeys"
More like SLimeys🤢🤮🤕🥵
I thought it was for their love of lima beans
That`s interesting, because i know the term also for the Royal Army soldiers ( next to Squatties)
I knew a few girls back in high school that fantasized about being ravished by a pirate. I wonder if they got to see his video. 🤔
We all have our kinks 🤷🏾♀️
Hahahaha... I knew a similar girl, but instead of pirates, she confessed me that she wanted to be banged by a _neckbeard,_ because in her opinion, and I shit you not, they were "soft and cuddly and probably smell like Cheetos".
Needless to say, a series of closer looks and quick smells at various specimens in the wild quickly changed her entire world view...
x"D Where do they live I want to hear it by myself.
Ravished LMFAO
MGTOW
These videos tell more history than the history channel in the past few years
Yeah History channel is WWII history channel, as if any other historical events do not exist.
Once upon a time History Channel was was a solid learning platform. Now it's just full of worthless junk with lots of fake reality TV.
@@spicybrown75 Isn't it all Ancient Aliens and Big Foot and Ghosthunting now? I don't have cable but all the insane shows seem to be on History.
@@andrew20146 Yeah, and those are the more documentary style shows on there. All the rest of the crap on there has turned into reality show crap, like others have said. It's like when MTV turned back in late 90's early 2000's. No one watches that channel to actually learn about history anymore.
@@earlofrednecks9533 It's SOOOO annoying!!!!! Like I came to learn about ww2,civil war,ancient Egypt, etc but all i see is fish tank and a treehouse show
I love how fun the history is told here!!! this channel is the best!
Ye the presentation is good
It’s my favorite history channel on YT!
Their videos are really hit or miss, but when they hit, they hit.
@@Ariel737 try oversimplify
*... This here video be rated "ARRRRRRR!!!"*
I recently visited St. Augustine, Florida for about a week and was AMAZED at its extensive, pirate-related history that I was lucky enough to learn more about at the historic district's pirate museum, which featured many authentic artifacts dredged up from sunken ships that were mentioned in this video--I was especially intrigued by their exhibit that showcased some of the actual bottles, trinkets, and tools that were used for medical care and found in shipwrecks from 17th, 18th, and 19th century pirate ships! Just absolutely incredible for me to watch this video after having seen first-hand such artifacts less than a month ago--truly stellar!
"He washed his mouth with urine"
Me: No, no, don't make me imagine it.
"Mmm"
This is not a joke-🏴☠️
Do you know why pirates wear a eyepatch?
It’s because when they take over another ship, it’s usually in the daytime and when they have to go inside the ship it’s very dark.
So they would swap the patch to the other eye and the eye that was covered is now acclimated to the dark,
it’s was like night vision!
🏴☠️
Pretty sure i because they lost an eye but that could just be it
Interesting! Thank you for sharing this!
@@oxeroth nah, it was to see the darkness inside the ship. this has been tested and proven.. almost every pirate wore an eyepatch.
_test_
I really don’t think the loss of depth perception would be worth having an eye that can see better in the dark.
We must practice social distancing when around pirates
Ha ha ha you’re so funny
Yeah, like thousands of miles.
For real for real!
Pirate racism.
@Jim Man don’t worry! Creepy Joe will be giving out reparations to families descended from Pirate Ancestors
I hope you could make a video about what Hygiene was like in Ancient to Medieval China, Japan, and Korea.
I just have a feeling that theirs is better than in Europe.
Yes....
If so then much hasn't changed for them 😆
I doubt it, Japan had water system starting late 1880s and they were the first to come up with pipe water system. Korea didn’t even get water system till Japan took hold of them. There are videos from early 90s on youtube and it shows European and American countries were way ahead of Asian countries. Westerners were sending Rockets to the space when majority of Asian counties were still riding horses.
@@alienmagi Im an Asian You can't last a day without taking a bath. So everyday we bath, everyday we wash and shampoo our hair after the long they we bath again at night. When we're kids we can't go to school wthout taking a bath. Our country's weather is insane all year Summer. Hahaha
@@alienmagi ...mukbang is just a person eating and just because you’re not familiar with what other cultures eat doesn’t mean you can demean their cultural foods.
This is the history I love to hear about! Now I am going to brush my teeth.
No wonder 99.9% of people prior to the Industrial Age stayed home their whole lives. Now I can't blame them.
How did they earn their living if they stayed at home all time
Agriculture. Most people lived on rural properties back then.
By staying home I meant more like they never traveled anywhere outside their village.
@@Scambush okay
@@Scambush you are not sleeping now
I had a gum disease ad before this video
I’m envious... I dream of the days before I got only political ads on every video
I had a cruise ship ad lol 😂
I got lucky. I got a Dr Squash commercial. I even watch them sometimes lol.
Weird me too.
Motivation to see your dentist.
The R Kelly line got me. I had to stop the video for a second. 😂😂😂!!
I used to live in Charleston where the main house was on the 1620 platte and it was purported that it became a bordello and haven for the pirates, particularly Blackbeard, that had a tunnel from the house to the harbor so he could sneak in. Charleston is full of underground tunnels, actually
Wow.. fun fact. Thx!
I'm sure a lot of these
pirates caught aaaarrthritis.
🥁
THIS TOOK ME OUT💀💀💀👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂😂😂💯💯💯💯
Get out...
You can’t catch it, it’s in DNA
Eller Ellerek it’s a joke 😂
I've been in nursing 28 years. When I first started an elderly man told me he needed head. He had to explain to me what he actually meant, he was a retired Navy guy🤷♀️😂
"He needed head." That is a phrase that would not end up well in the wrong ears in 2020
so no head?
aight im about to head out
😂😂😂
papbob It would end well
did u grant him the head he craved
Mercy.....I'm grateful for my life.
7:16 I did not expect that at all!! 😂😂😂😂
Hygiene? Isn't that a landlubber thing? Real scurvy dogs don't have that.
Arrr... No good...
@John Signs like what you did there 😅💩
“You landlubbers are tougher than I thought. I’ll have to improvise!”
... Sorry, my brain just always goes there when I hear/see that word. 👀
All this time I thought it was land lover. Then i googled what the hell landlubber means. Now I feel even more dumb for thinking you guys were saying it wrong.
"Hygiene" and "pirate" is two things that doesnt really relate to each other. Hell even normal crews were.. well dirty as hell basically. Now pirates, whose ideals are to not give a shit about anything.. yup they were even worse.
No gene here, just pirates
This channel is the coolest channel I've came across lately.
Totally cool. I agree.
Ah, if only the history channel was this informative. I mean, can one even imagine the History Channel actually doing an episode on history?!? Crazy
They used to before they went the way of reality tv.
Weird History: * makes a joke about R. Kelly. *
My brain: *The shade! The shade of it all!* LOL 😂
* Runs to bathroom, gathers up all my soaps, oral products and smell goods, and lovingly cuddles them *
😂😂😂😂
Hint: There's a reason they called it the "poop deck".
Ba dumb bum, tiss.
Haha 😂
The twig/branch mentioned was most probably Miswak. Which is a branch of a tree that is actually recommended to use today for cleaning teeth.
The miswak has a soft fibrous consistency very similar to a toothbrush. It is still sold today and is not a bad alternative at all if you have no toothpaste or toothbrush at hand.
Miswak is so good
Not a whole lot of what was mentioned in this video actually applied exclusively to pirates, most of what was mentioned applied to all sailors during this time period. The only real difference between life on a pirate ship and life on a navy ship was that officers lived better and pirates typically elected their captains. But sailors aboard navy ships suffered from many of the same problems that their pirate counterparts did, got paid less, and often faced harsh discipline for any infractions.
That R. Kelley part sent me in ORBIT. 😂 Go off Weird History.😭
I don't get the joke....did he drink his own piss
I've never gotten the allure of pirates, for all reasons mentioned. Just seems like a living hell to me, and I served in the Navy.
They're really just society's rejects aren't they? It's just glorified now because of the one aspect of the pirate life: Freedom. Which is true, but hard fought.
J Ty what’s so free about being stuck on a shitty ship
there's a certain charm in travelling and seeing uncharted beautiful islands..
@@bau5235 And in scurvy, do not forget.
The pay was far greater than any other traditional Navy or merchant ships of the times. They all received a % of the take based on rank.
"What Hygiene -Was- *Wasn't* Like On Pirate Ships"
Literally sat here and ate an orange as I watched this xD
Rum was a great antiseptic. And there were some dental precautions taken. Europeans did not have a severe problem with tooth decay until after the sugar trade (honey and refined sugar beet were the preferred sources before that) ...and pirates were soon to learn about dental issues and pain/inflammation. In fact they did use seaweed and alcohol to brush out residue and foul odors from their mouth. They were often drenched with storm rain and often used spices to mask odors....(bay rum for example)...but generally were more well washed than landlubbers.
Hygiene during the French Revolution would be interesting.
They only washed from the...
...
...neck up.
@@Name-ps9fx 😂
Pretty sure the 1700s would be the same as 21st century French hygiene...
@@jmmartin7766
What?
@@xalthzdornier4805 Hes pretty sure that the hygiene in the 1700s is the same as it is now
I really find it to be incredible how these people could sail from country to country with no technology improper maps. Blows my mind
People even a few generations back had more spunk , spirit and character... They lived by faith becuz they had no choice....
Inaccurate maps gave the Bounty mutineers a hiding place as Pitcairn Island was not properly located on maps of the day. Christian Fletcher really lucked out!
well for the most part youd sail to something big then coast the coast until departing onto the shorter legs of the journey
I live on the coast of NC and I actually know the man who discovered Blackbeard’s ship here (he lives in Florida) and it’s so cool seeing items in this video that I’ve seen in the museum right here in my hometown. I’m so used to knowing all about Blackbeard and seeing all of the artifacts that I sometimes forget it’s not just my little town’s thing, but actually a large piece of history that is talked about all over the country.
U know that during the golden age of piracy they sailed to the new world mostly. That's y the Caribbean has alot of pirate history
"What was hygiene like on a pirate ship?"
What hygiene?
I had a WEL Dental advert before my vid started. The ads they couple with your content is on point!
Ads ? lol
i got one ad for a face cream and then a car ad
Same
Cool! Me too!
being a pirate now sounds like a nightmare. thanks, weird history.
Lmfao!! @7:15 They really just busted out with that R.Kelly dig!! Seriously did not expect that! 😂🤣😂🤣
Totally had to subscribe after that 👍😄
Time to go mix a Captain Morgan and Coke.....will a full lime garnish!
The lime is probably good for scurvy. 😂
Aaaarrrrrrr me rum is me BEST mate
@@TheAndersDanilet Which is why we lovingly refer to the British as "Limeys"-- no lie
Or just drink Grog.
Arrrrrrrrrrr ya gonna get drunk
A pirate walks into a bar and the bartender looks at him and says "excuse me sir but there is a steering wheel hanging down by your crotch area" and the pirate said "argh it's driving me nuts"
That's good.
👏 👏 👏
Aaarrgghh! You're killing me 🤣🤣 my ribs hurt and I can't breathe 🤣🤣 🤣 ROFL 🤣
The thing which most intrigued me was the fact that 'pirates didn't know swimming', sounds same like 'a soldier who doesn't know how to fight in the battlefield' 😇
I was never a pirate but I once was a crewman aboard a stolen vessel that plied the waters of the Caribbean in search of Spanish galleons to plunder... wait a minute, I guess I was a pirate. This would explain my peg leg and this parrot currently squawking in my ear.
Everything on a pirate ship was kept clean, except for the crew.
If we could just for a minute or two smell the stench aboard one of those 17th century sailing ships, I guess there'd be way fewer books and movies romanticizing this particular period and profession. Heck, anyone who's been to the Caribbean or another tropical climate probably can imagine what the smell would be like without air conditioning, deodorant and dental hygiene/medicine *plus* everyone running around in layers of unwashed, old clothes made from wool.
@ISledgehammerI that is so funny!!!!
You are right. However I’m amaZed to how we can get used to smells and our brain like erases it. I remember a kid vomited in my bus when i was younger and after an hour or so the smell just disappeared, but every new kid that arrived was horrified by it. I think those guys from history just got used to that shit
I'm from central America and I can confirm all of that. We take showers twice a day to keep the sweat at bay lol
Probably smelled like a farm. Well, probably worse.
@@youtubesucks-yx6kk Yeah, at least farms had fresh air breezing through large fields, pirate ships had confined areas that barely got flowing air through
The shot of R.Kelly...this video is going straight to my favorites.
"You hear that? Somewhere R Kelly just liked this video🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣wow, man. That was great!!!
I gotta give 'em bucks for having strong noses with the resistance to pungent odor
Lol.. to be fair they will not smell that putrid odor because they were used to it.. its like when you get in the car with air freshener you will smell it instantly but overtime your nose will be used to it until u will not recognized it anymore
@@ranholic5027 Your nervous system desensitizes to odors with exposure to them. That's why some people will keep on applying perfume when they don't smell it any more.
They went "Nose Blind" they needed Febreze!
@@mattheweurich33 🐶🐴
Sailors through the ages found out that water goes bad about two weeks into the journey, so they decided that alcohol is a suitable way to disinfect it, so they started making drinks like grog (water + rum + spices) and drank it constantly, they were crews of alcoholics that were in constant need of a drink. Plus the hard tacks that were made in that time are probably still edible today.
"What was hygiene like on pirate ships?" "No"
"Pirates movies don't show them cleaning the ship."
Insert clip of Barbossa's skeleton crew scrubbing the hell out of the Black Pearl's deck
Don’t forget the army of Jack Sparrows
@@haleycross9663 Yes! That too😂
Um, there was literally a scene of Pintel & Ragetti & most of the others scrubbing the deck when Elizabeth was brought aboard. So, they definitely showed cleaning.
‘Calico’ Jack Rackham was *known* as a fancy dresser, as were several other pirates.
‘Grog’ was a mix of rum & lemon or lime juice - an easy (if not necessarily ideal) way to get vitamin c
What in the name of scurvy... 💀
They treated personal hygiene like trash, but made sure the whip was spotless....???😂
Imagine how strong immunity they used to have. Nowadays we are susceptible to flu and allergies. It's truly suprising that they survived in that environment.
Weird History is my favorite channel! Thank you
Everybody's hygiene, including landlubbers, was questionable at that time.
Well you know they were shaving pirates belly’s with a rusty razor so it isn’t very hygienic
And they only shaved early in the morning
Wayhay and up the tetanus rises! Wayhay and up the tetanus rises! wayhay and up the tetanus rises!
Earlaay in the mooorning
It's awesome that you got to be on these pirate ships and take notes on all this stuff,amazing!!!
"somewhere RKelly enjoyed this video" 😂😂😂 That may have been the best thing Ive heard him say so far LOL!
I spit out my water when he said the rkelly joke im too done 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I choked on my Reese's cup lmfao
Shut up
@@zahirsabra1971 ok boomer
I love the hygiene videos. Makes me appreciate today even with the craziness!
Humans have always been a crazy breed. One way or the other. Some ways of being crazy are much worse than other, though.
The R KELLY reference!!! i’m dead lololol
Sounds like a nightmare life. Glad I live in the 21st century! Love this channel, very interesting topics they cover.
I love the writing. The guy that does the voice over is also my favourite of the readers for Wierd History. Does he do any other chamnels?
He hosts a late night show
Dovakin Brown what show?
*weird
What's a pirate's favorite fast food restaurant?
Rrrrrrrrbys...lol
Good one
Isn't that place owned by The Crusty Crab?
s
Boa Boy right next to one of the kid and the pirate movie
I heard that they prefer them golden aaaarches.
So glad I found this Chanel!! Just wish there was more videos lol
Love the R. Kelly burn! Lmao
you know you're a disney when you immediately go "it's yo ho yo ho, guys".
what do want to be when you grow up son?
"imma be a disney"
How can they be lacking in vitamin sea when they are already in it?
Awesome comment!
I was trying to think of a good comeback, but there aaaarrren't
Lmaaoooooo
You are NOT funny!
That pun XD
7:17 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I just laughed so hard I shot milk outta my nose & I'm not even drinking milk!!
Wow! What a risky life on board a pirate ship! Great historical info!
The R. Kelly reference just made you a LEGEND
How about the story of Ching Shih, a woman pirate of China in the 1800s who was so successful at what she plundered, the Chinese rulers at the time completely pardoned her so she would stop.
@Doug Durrum so were you 😈
yeah not a woman.
@@RabidlyTaboo if they pardoned her i am sure it was a woman, still happem till this day
Pardons were actually quite common. Woods Rogers started that back in the 1720's in Nassau.
A Pirate was trying to put the fire out when his wodden leg caught fire
insurance refused to pay him they said he didn't have a leg to stand on Arrrr
7:16 lol that R Kelly joke 😂
Pirate punishments would be an interesting topic. Keel hauling for example...Yikes!
For the common sailor of the day, living conditions were bad regardless of being on a pirate ship or a “ legitimate” ship.
The Captains and Officers on “legitimate” ships were often tyrants. Pirate ships were much more democratic in their leadership.
So, for many folks, being a Pirate was a very viable option.
Just subscribed as of today, like your style
"Pirates weren't good swimmers."
Me inside: Confused Screaming!!
How was the hygiene on pirate ships.. what are you kidding me it smelled like rum and arm pits 😱
katina whitley and sodomy
I think it was worse than that.
Rumpits!!!!!.....I think I need a few lemons and a wash after watching this! (Shudders) yo ho ho not a pirates life for meeeeee
@ katina: So, if I hear you correctly, you're saying it heavily resembled a college frat house... 😆
And ass 😄🤣
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Love Weird History!
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Omg....the RKelly joke got me lol 😂
The R. Kelly referrence though......wow, hahahaha.