Where Did Sailors Go to the Bathroom? (It's Worse Than You Think)

HMS Victory sailed into Trafalgar with more than 800 men on board. Months at sea, three meals a day, and not a single bathroom. So where did they all go? Off the front of the ship, on a plank, in full view of everyone. But the long answer is a lot weirder: a shared rag on a rope instead of toilet paper, a sailor nicknamed "the liar" who scrubbed the toilets for a week, a wave that blasted up through an officer's seat, officers forced onto "the chains" after their toilets were torn out for cannons, the real meaning of the poop deck, and the WWII submarine U-1206 that was sunk by its own toilet. Chapters: 0:00 800 men and no bathroom 0:43 Part 1: The head 2:10 Part 2: Everywhere else 3:01 What did they wipe with? 3:44 "The liar" and the plumber's mate 4:18 Part 3: Rank has its privileges 5:36 USS Constitution loses its toilets 6:35 Part 4: The poop deck misunderstanding 7:21 The toilet that sank a submarine (U-1206) 8:10 So where did sailors go? Next video: what sailors actually ate on a months-long voyage. Hint: it was hard as a rock, and something might have been living inside it. Subscribe so you don't miss it. #history #sailingships #ageofsail