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by Kelly Duffy, National Museum of the American Sailor Deputy Director While a sailor’s life onboard an Age of Sail ship during the 1700s and 1800s was difficult, food and nutrition created further hardships. Prior to the introduction of shipboard refrigeration in the early 1900s ,the storage of fresh foods was virtually impossible. Sailors rarely…

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