Re: Reprints of Miller's 1922 book on railway artillery
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Phil Gilson
Gene Slover's website,
Railway Artillery Guns 1921
has a 'click here' box on the USN and an entry deals with the mythical trip pf the USS Constitution in 1798 which relates the prodigious quantities of whiskey and rum captured. A summary of captured contraband and consumption by the officers and men of the crew works out as follows USS Constitution Whiskey seizures (1-1/2 oz per serving = 86 shots per gallon) 86 shots/gal x 79,400 gal = 6,828,400 shots 86 shots/gal x 68,300 gal =5,873,800 shots 86 shots/gal x 64,300gal =5,529,300' shots 86 shots/gal x 40,000 gal =3,440,00shots Total 21,828,400 shots (Excluding the unrecorded booty from the English ships) Now then the voyage from 7/27/1798 to 2 /20/1799 is 6 months and 24 days = 208 days /208 days at sea = 104,192 shots per day / 475 crew
= 219 shots per day per man = 9/10th of a gallon per man per day Truly a tall tail told by an old sea dog A lengthy rebuttal is at More than you want to know about British beer and ale quantities and containers All-in-all, a delightful rabbit hole to explore. Phil, Bklyn
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 11:09 PM Robert Duchesneau via Groups.Io <invar4=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
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