MrSebSinM to The Far Side · 4 days ago30 November 2024imagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1184arrow-down11
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minus-squareDarkCloud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-24 days agoThere was a trial in the UK about three men and a boy in a boat. The boy was an orphan and had drunk sea water and got sick… They are him then were rescued a week or two later I think. …here it is; 1884, the royal family vs Dudley and Stephens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens
minus-squarebrbpostinglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 days agoLovely. Determined to have been illegal. So after that, sailors made sure to lie about it.
There was a trial in the UK about three men and a boy in a boat. The boy was an orphan and had drunk sea water and got sick… They are him then were rescued a week or two later I think.
…here it is; 1884, the royal family vs Dudley and Stephens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens
Lovely. Determined to have been illegal.
So after that, sailors made sure to lie about it.