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Sea travel in general was apocalyptically bad for sailors until about 1910. I don't think people realize how dangerously shitty it was for people.

• lostlogin 10y ago
  Reading about the ww2 Arctic convoys has the same feeling.
  • arethuza 10y ago
    I can recommend Three Corvettes by Nicholas Monsarrat - the author of The Cruel Sea - it is his account of his experiences at sea during WW2. One of the few books that has moved me to tears.
  • astrodust 10y ago
    It's true. Getting shot at by German submarines and bombed by planes did bring the danger level up to what typical sea travel was like a hundred years earlier: "Ten men were thrown overboard, around fifty died of scurvy or starvation, and twenty were killed when a drunken brawl got out of hand." "So it was a good trip?"