Aug 20, 2024
From top to bottom we have a rum barrel from the 19th century, underneath is a square plate from the wreck of HMS Invincible which sank in 1758 off the Isle of Wight. This is the typical plate used by sailors to keep their food from slipping away.
Two pipe bowls underneath from the 18th or 19th century and the roll underneath is a tobacco roll. Tobacco leaves were sprinkled with rum by the sailor and wrapped in canvas and tightly wrapped with tarred rope to protect the leaves and save storage space.
Photo by me - International Maritime Museum Hamburg
