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Old 02-07-2019, 06:25 AM   #8
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Crazy. I think I recall reading that in the days of square-riggers, the French navy (and perhaps others) essentially used the bilge as a black water tank. I think they also carried the corpses of crewmen home in the bilge, to be buried in consecrated ground vs burial at sea. If true, it makes you wonder why their ships didn’t explode the first time somebody lit a pipe below decks.
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