Life on a Whaling Ship: Understanding Every Rank and Role
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Explore the ranks and roles aboard a whaling ship, from green hand to mate. Discover the daily life, challenges, and unique responsibilities of each position. Learn how crew members lived, worked, and survived on these historic voyages. Chapters: 00:00 Four years, and you owe them 00:12 Three questions 00:24 Nobody earned a wage 00:36 The second column 00:48 The slop chest 01:00 Rank 1: green hand 01:12 Where you slept 01:24 What you ate 01:36 Rank 2: able seaman 01:48 The boats did the work 02:00 Rank 3: boatsteerer 02:12 The swap 02:24 Status, not tactics 02:36 The sleigh ride 02:48 Rank 4: the mates 03:00 The cooper 03:12 Cutting in 03:24 Into the head 03:36 Trying out 03:48 A ship that looks on fire 04:00 Rank 5: the captain 04:12 Discipline both ways 04:24 They deserted in droves 04:36 Who was on this ladder 04:48 The ceiling broke early 05:00 Open, not level 05:12 What it settled at 05:24 The risk was not theoretical 05:36 The collapse 05:48 Everyone survived, nothing else did 06:00 Who counts the profit 06:12 He never left Massachusetts
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