PG 34 Plainview / Old Bethpage Herald - "Life Aboard A Whaling Ship”
In addition to the threat of death at sea during a whale hunt, these men slept in the crowded, smelly “forecastle” - a triangular room below deck in the bow. With terrible conditions including scurvy, men crowded together, the constant threats of mutiny and long unproductive voyages, desertion was common.
