Boats Commercial: ships "passenger"
Nowadays, all the yachts that sail professionally role is to transport passengers , that or the luxury liners, yachts, private schools or small boats that carry customers to the islands ...
But until the early twentieth century, rarely traveled for pleasure. Passengers were most often emigrants, who left the poverty of their country European to settle in America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, etc. ... in short, in all regions that European countries want to colonize. City of Adelaide , now a wreck in Scotland (and perhaps already demolished) carried thousands of emigrants in Australia for 23 years, he could also be sentenced to of the exile, or convicts. Edwin Fox, now a wreck in New Zealand, is the last representative of this type of vessel.
The conditions were difficult : promiscuity, lack of hygiene and healthy food, confinement in the hold, marine hazards ...
An example of emigrant ship was restored by the Irish: it Jeanie Johnston . This one had a good reputation as comfortable as could be expected around 1850, very seaworthy, he never lost anyone: Normal that the Irish have chosen this model to build their most beautiful yacht.
Another example is the Americans Kalmar Nyckel, a replica of a Swedish transport of emigrants of 1637, or Mayflower.
Even worse were the conditions of transport of captured Africans to serve as slaves. Notorious, malnourished, they could not all at the end of the journey on these slave ships who brings shame many European ports (Nantes and Bordeaux, for example, France): The conditions were just horrible. Slave ships were also used as cargo ships, as they related to American food (sugar, fruit).
Nowadays, all the yachts that sail professionally role is to transport passengers , that or the luxury liners, yachts, private schools or small boats that carry customers to the islands ...
But until the early twentieth century, rarely traveled for pleasure. Passengers were most often emigrants, who left the poverty of their country European to settle in America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, etc. ... in short, in all regions that European countries want to colonize. City of Adelaide , now a wreck in Scotland (and perhaps already demolished) carried thousands of emigrants in Australia for 23 years, he could also be sentenced to of the exile, or convicts. Edwin Fox, now a wreck in New Zealand, is the last representative of this type of vessel.
The conditions were difficult : promiscuity, lack of hygiene and healthy food, confinement in the hold, marine hazards ...
An example of emigrant ship was restored by the Irish: it Jeanie Johnston . This one had a good reputation as comfortable as could be expected around 1850, very seaworthy, he never lost anyone: Normal that the Irish have chosen this model to build their most beautiful yacht.
Another example is the Americans Kalmar Nyckel, a replica of a Swedish transport of emigrants of 1637, or Mayflower.
Even worse were the conditions of transport of captured Africans to serve as slaves. Notorious, malnourished, they could not all at the end of the journey on these slave ships who brings shame many European ports (Nantes and Bordeaux, for example, France): The conditions were just horrible. Slave ships were also used as cargo ships, as they related to American food (sugar, fruit).
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