hello all, I am building the santisima trinidad by occre. oO the front of the ship, on the bow, there are two half moon structures, what are these... latrine?
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Yes - these are the so called "roundhouses" for the lower officers. The closed toilets.
The normal seamen had to use the open "seats of ease" - f.e the HMS Victory had six of them (for appr. 800 seamen)
Some ships had also some piss-dales on the forward end of the waist. (not often shown in models)
The higher ranks had their toilets in the quarter galleries.
Nice explanation you can find here:
www.quora.com
and a much better explanations you can read after download this Thesis-document:
The Development of External Sanitary Facilities Aboard Ships of the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Joe John Simmons
nautarch.tamu.edu
The normal seamen had to use the open "seats of ease" - f.e the HMS Victory had six of them (for appr. 800 seamen)
Some ships had also some piss-dales on the forward end of the waist. (not often shown in models)
The higher ranks had their toilets in the quarter galleries.
Nice explanation you can find here:
How did medieval sailors go to the bathroom on their ship?
Answer (1 of 20): Certainly in the later part of sail the toilets were in the bows of the ship. From this trailed a rope with a cloth on the end which was cleaned by the action of the forward movement of the ship as it was towed through the ships wake. You pulled it in wiped your bottom on it and...
and a much better explanations you can read after download this Thesis-document:
The Development of External Sanitary Facilities Aboard Ships of the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Joe John Simmons
Nautical Archaeology Program – Department of Anthropology
nautarch.tamu.edu