You can't beat a 5 month long, sea bourne, drink-sodden orgy

[torchthebitch]

From The Times February 24, 2010

Journal tells how voyage Down Under turned into a drink-sodden orgy

The pages of James Bell's journal drip with salacious details - such as his captain's seduction of two of the 11 daughters of a doctor from Liverpool. The book was written as a gift for Bell's own beloved, but it is not thought that he ever presented it to her
Home Staff

A tale of drink-sodden debauchery between passengers and crew is revealed in the journal of a junior officer on an emigrant ship to Australia more than 170 years ago.

James Bell sailed on the Planter, which left Deptford, southeast London, on the five-month journey to Adelaide in November 1838. “With all this whoring and drunkenness,” he wrote, “it is amazing this ship ever arrived in Australia.”

Bell told how his captain seduced two of the 11 daughters of a Liverpool doctor named McGowan and that a gang of prostitutes made the voyage. His 225-page volume, bought for a few pounds at a book stall, is expected to fetch £4,000 at Bonhams in London on March 23.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7038385.ece

 

[Sean]

And people think Club 18-30 is a new invention.

 

[where]

brings to mind the William Golding Close Quarters Trilogy.

there's one (well three) for Batch

 

[torchthebitch]

And people think Club 18-30 is a new invention.

This was Club 1840

 

[where]

This was Club 1840

*groans*

 

[torchthebitch]

*groans*

Nothing wrong with your arithmetic

 

[islandman]

11 daughters? Gads.

 

[torchthebitch]

11 daughters? Gads.

Not enough lambs intestine obviously.