What is a latrine on a ship? How the toilet was built on a sailboat. The toilet on the ship is called a "latrine"

A very important thing on a yacht, especially for a comfortable stay, is the toilet. It is considered the most frequently broken part on charters. Accordingly, money is withdrawn from your deposit for repairs. Below are instructions on what to do so as not to lose your deposit on the toilets.

The toilet on the ship is called a latrine.

According to one opinion, the word came into the Russian language from the term galleon, since on this type of ships they began to use such a ship toilet system, and latrines were disguised with beautiful figures. Why this was done on the bow, which is more susceptible to pitching and less comfortable, you will understand if you remember that the first types of ships were with direct sails and sailed with the wind, accordingly, all unpleasant odors were carried away from the bow faster, without desecrating the entire hull of the ship.
By the way, in English language the latrine is still called Head, reminding us of the times when it was located at the bow, at the head of the ship. In the English-speaking environment there is a saying: “who block head - that unblock it.” This is a play on words, one might say philosophy. The toilets on our catamarans look like this

Types of latrines used on catamarans.

They will be indicated to you by a technical employee of the base when completing the Check-in procedure (acceptance of the boat). This knowledge will help you avoid the embarrassment of enjoying clean waters while swimming and having to use a latrine at the same time. In some countries and protected areas, the use of latrines with an open fecal tank is prohibited. We also remind you that you are required to return the boat with full fuel tanks and empty fecal tanks. To empty them, you need to go beyond the 5-mile coastal zone and open the drainage valves of the fecal tanks at cruising speed. Next, use the coastal infrastructure. The fecal tanks themselves and the entire sewage system are shown in cross-section here:

Manual latrine.

At the same time, a large black pump handle is visible, and next to it there is a smaller black handle - the shut-off handle. How to use it? We specially translated his instructions.

INSTRUCTIONS for using a manual yacht toilet

1. First use,

Fill the toilet halfway with warm water.
With the handle in the “closed” position (black curved arrow or drawing of an empty toilet), pump out the water.
2. Regular use
Open the inlet and outlet seacocks (and auxiliary valves, if equipped).
Immediately before use, make sure there is sufficient water in the reservoir to prevent the toilet paper from bunching up at the bottom. If there is no water in the tank, move the handle to the “open” position (white curved arrow or picture of a toilet bowl into which water is being poured) and pump up and down until the tank is full. Move the handle to the “closed” position (black arrow).
For efficient and comfortable use, pump the hand pump all the way in a smooth motion. During use, make the necessary amount of pumping to ensure that the water level in the tank does not become too high. Use a moderate amount of good quality toilet paper. After using the toilet, leave the handle in the “closed” position (black arrow) and pump the pump until the reservoir is empty.
Then return the handle to the "open" position and continue pumping to remove waste from the side or until it reaches the faecal tank (at the rate of 7 pumps for each meter (yard) of drain pipe length).
After this, move the handle to the “closed” position and pump until the reservoir is empty. The reservoir must always remain empty to prevent unpleasant odors and spillage.
AFTER USE:
- HANDLE IN “CLOSED” POSITION
- KINGSTON CLOSED

Attention: DANGER!!! - for both types of toilets!

ATTENTION: Nothing should go into the toilet except what is passed through our body. It is prohibited to throw into the toilet: hygiene products, wet wipes, cotton wool, cigarettes and matches, chewing gum or other solid waste. It is also not allowed to flush gasoline, diesel, oils, any solvents or hot water into the toilet.

Despite detailed description There is nothing wrong with using this device and our technician will advise you on the spot, indicating the MOST IMPORTANT:

1. Nothing should get into the toilet except what is naturally passed through our body, otherwise the equipment may break down and you will find yourself without one latrine.
2. A minimum of 15 full strokes of the handle to drive the contents through the hoses into the tank or overboard.
3. Switch the valve flag to the drying position, make two or three more pumps and make sure that the water level does not rise.

Electric latrine

Well, right away there is a control panel for the operating modes of the electric latrine. The image is clearly drawn and seems to be intuitive, we hope you will quickly get used to this type of latrine.

It’s really easier to operate, but if it breaks, repairs are more expensive, so read the instructions.

INSTRUCTIONS for using an automatic yacht toilet with electric drive

We wish you a pleasant voyage, and our technical service will take care of proper equipment.
Sail away!

Life on a sailing ship in the early 18th century was not at all easy. Every day, dangers awaited the sailor: people fell off slippery yards, the wind threw sailors from swinging shrouds (rope ladders), the crew was threatened with illness, death from thirst and hunger. Even such a simple thing as visiting a latrine was associated with a risk to life!

In the navy, a toilet is called a latrine. This name comes from a small open area in the bow of the upper deck of the ship, from where the bowsprit begins - the front wooden beam inclined at an angle of 30-40o, which served for installing individual elements of the sailing armament. On the same platform along the sides to the left and right there were sailor's toilets.

A typical early 18th-century sailing ship's latrine was a seat with a hole at the bottom. Since the toilet was located on an open area of ​​the deck, this place was very dangerous for a person, since only thin handrails or stretched ropes separated it from the sea elements. Therefore, the surging wave often washed the unwary sailor overboard. And being in the water in the middle of the open sea is certain death. A person will be thrown in different directions, covered with a stream of water, which can cause him to simply choke. But even in the most successful set of circumstances, when the comrades immediately noticed the one who found himself overboard and sounded the alarm, it happened that the ship went so far under sail that it was no longer possible from above to throw a rope to the drowning sailor and lift him back on board. A man could not catch up with the ship by swimming, because the speed of a sailing ship with sufficient wind was much greater than the speed of a swimming man.

Due to insecurity, sailors did not like latrines. Not wanting to risk their lives again, many sailors considered it preferable to go somewhere behind a cannon or hide in a dark corner of the hold.

Therefore, in the Russian maritime regulations of 1720, it was stated that the ship's provos - the official in charge of keeping prisoners and carrying out corporal punishment - monitored the cleanliness on board and detained those responsible for creating unsanitary conditions. But even fines and the threat of being flogged could not force particularly timid sailors to visit the latrines at the bow of the ship.

The senior ranks of the ship's crew did not use sailors' latrines. The living conditions of officers in the navy were naturally better than those of ordinary sailors. They stayed in a spacious wardroom (and somewhere from the middle of the 18th century in separate cabins), ate better, and had personal servants. So the toilet at the ship’s command was much safer than the sailors’ latrines.

At the stern of the wooden sailing ship there were protruding stulets - round overhangs on the sides at the stern of the ship. One of them contained navigational instruments and nautical charts, the other housed a closed cabin for the officer's toilet. (On larger ships, there was a two-story room in the stultz, in which there was a latrine and a washstand below, and a real captain’s bathtub on top). One can argue about the convenience of this cramped closet, but in any case, at least the person in it did not risk being left behind. So, with all the advantages of life for officers on a sailing ship, perhaps one of the most significant privileges was a safe latrine.

Text: Leonid Strakhov

Galleon is a large multi-deck sailing ship of the 16th-18th centuries with decent artillery armament from the Tula arms factory, used as warships and merchant ships.

Galleon with the Neva flag

Galleons became most famous as ships carrying gold treasures from America, celebrated in the battle of the Great Armada, which took place in 1588. Wars between the Western and Eastern Empires during the division of the Roman Empire. Now it’s not for nothing that we called our new tank Armata. Now, when searching for Armata, you will not find pictures of those battles - you will see our tank, because there were also double-headed eagles on ships.

The galleon is the most advanced type of sailing weapon, which appeared in the 16th century during the era of Ivan the Terrible. This type of sailing ship appeared during the evolution of caravels and carracks or naves and was intended for long ocean voyages, could travel long distances and was more maneuverable:

Reducing the tank superstructure and lengthening the hull resulted in increased stability and reduced wave drag, resulting in a faster, more seaworthy and maneuverable vessel. The galleon differs from the early ships on which Afanasy Nikitin sailed across three seas, including the Indian Ocean, in that it was longer, lower and straighter, with a rectangular stern instead of a round one, and the presence of a latrine at the bow, protruding forward below the level of the forecastle.

Because of this innovation, the name of the ship came from

from the Russian word Lattyun - it has become convenient to “shit” and “pour” overboard. I just shit and pour :-) Ga..pour-- Galiu - Galiun. For example, I learned that a toilet is just a toilet, only at school - at home there was always a latrine! And a ship with such a comfortable toilet as the Latrine is a house on the water under sails that one could only dream of :-)

The galleon's displacement was up to 500 tons. There were also larger Manila galleons up to 2000 tons.

The first mention of the Galleon dates back to 1535, when the galleon became the basis of fleets. The stem, strongly curved and extended forward, had decorations and was shaped like the stem of Roman galleys. The long bowsprit carried a sail - a blind. The bow superstructure was moved back and did not hang over the stem, like a karakka. The stern superstructure, high and narrow, was placed on the cut-off stern. The superstructure had several tiers that housed the living quarters of the ship's officers and passengers. The heavily canted sternpost had a transom above the load waterline. On the rear side, the aft wall of the superstructure was decorated with magnificent carvings and balconies.

Galleons survived until the 18th century, when they gave way to more modern ships with full sails.

Galleon. I found a slightly larger picture.

Double-Headed Eagle - Russian. But this Galleon is now called Spanish, attributing the cross to Spain.

Even at school they teach that certain “Crusaders” fought with us more than once... But it was this straight cross that was preserved in the paintings on the walls of all Russian churches - in Orel, Kursk, Novgorod, and that is why the most fierce battles took place on the Kursk Bulge in 1942 battles and cathedrals were destroyed. But Spain was once Russian. And now there live freedom-loving people who play in the school of our “Elephant” and only the Spaniards at Maslenitsa climb a pole for a prize, although not on a watered or icy pole 0 there is no frost there, but they make pyramids out of people like us. And it is no coincidence that Catalonia is now breaking away from Spain, which was eventually captured by the British. And the Second World War began precisely with the Uprising in Spain, when the Spaniards wanted to raise the red flag and establish socialism in Europe - it was a war with Communism under the Red Flag of our ancestors, and it was the Russians who were the first to come to the rescue in 1935-1936. And my grandfather fought in Spain.

Map of Peter the Great. The Bering Strait will be opened later on more powerful ships

Sailors in general are a special caste - the sea is international for everyone, just like the Lighthouses that were built to secure the route. And if something new is invented somewhere, it instantly becomes common property. Therefore, I do not believe that everyone is assured that there was no fleet in Russia before Peter the Great; such a thing could not have happened. If the ships came to visit us, we would immediately have such a miracle :-) This is done in order to prove to the Russians that America, by definition, could not be ours and they forgot about Alaska altogether, when the whole North America was called Alaska :-) Let me remind you that modern Alaska became the 49th State precisely during the Second World War - in 1959, like Hawaii. And medals were issued. History is simply being rewritten for us by non-Russian historians, for our money, who call all the ships Spanish or English. because they were designated in English letters. - not in English but in Latin, and the Russians also used to write in Latin, not Cyrillic, which is why the library in Alexandria was burned - not readable, like the speech of Charles Eleventh at his funeral in Sweden in 1697, written in Russian. Italians learn Russian in order to read in transliteration what the ancient Etruscans (Russians) wrote, and two floors of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg are littered with Etruscan jugs and you will look at them for three days.

500 rubles of the Great Greco-Russian Eastern Empire.

If these were really Spanish ships, then all the gold would not be in the Kremlin, in the armory of the Moscow Kremlin and not in the gold storerooms of the Hermitage in Spain. but most large quantity magnificent palaces in St. Petersburg, which is being renamed and now the palaces are already in the Leningrad region, and the city is not Leningrad at all, but St. Petersburg. was both St. Petersburg - initially - the city of stone and Petrograd - the city built by Peter and St. Petersburg - the city of St. Peter. And there were no Mongol Tatars who allegedly conquered ancient Rus'. And if they were, then where is their civilization now? And there were no internecine wars, or there was another internecine strife, when the children of Ivan the Terrible inherited all of Europe, quickly tearing it apart and introducing new languages ​​so that subjects could not cross. German, French, Italian are only 350 years old. As now they divided one people of Rus into Russians and Ukrainians. more precisely, now Russians and citizens of independent Ukraine, which first received statehood after the collapse of the #USSR. And it is the Russian international, united regular fleet with access to 4 oceans, protecting merchant ships from pirates, that can really be 320 years old, and the international language here is Russian. But this is not a 320-year anniversary at all to issue medals and celebrate! They celebrate, contrary to the customs of celebrating fifty dollars and quarters, and 20 years - the forbidden dates 20 and 40, so that it settles in your head - the Navy is only 320 years old, but America was discovered earlier! and Tserelli erects a Monument to the Discovery of America in America! Well, firstly, it was not America, but Cuba that was discovered, and secondly, as our Tortilla sings, there were no Americans 300 years ago! :

They didn’t pump gas from shale,

No one bombed Baghdad

There were no Americans

Three hundred years ago.

Russian ship Orel with double-headed eagles on the flag.

Russian ship "Eagle".

Now they will build us, of course, a later ship with the flag of RUSSIA - red white blue, to prove to everyone that this "Eagle" with flags with double-headed eagles did not exist!

The Russian double-headed eagle remained on our Galleons with latrines on the bow and then it became fashionable, but everything in Europe was patented and Peter was the first to cut through a window because the British closed our window more than once, uniting all of Europe against us, and even from the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral , which they don’t want to free from the condom, only the west is visible...

At St. Isaac's Council, only the West is indicated. Photo by Kirill Rignier

But this is a completely different story. :-)

To the question Where did they go to the toilet on sailing ships of the 16th-18th centuries? given by the author Ivan Reznov the best answer is I want to serve. But there are no latrines! They're probably already doing it now, but
old boats, sorry, are not observed. Forgot it, sir. Not programmed
were our boats so that our people could shit themselves at full speed for
short duration of torpedo attack.
So our people go to think big at the stern at thirty
two knots, if he’s really impatient and really pushes.
With your pants down, it looks better than an American rodeo.
Their stinking cowboys on their tame bulls are small children and sons
armless. But our brother is in a relaxed state, bending over tensely
sitting, palely shining from below, lavishly clearly watching that from
When it slipped, the pate did not turn out - wow! This movie. Painting.
It's better to watch it from the outside.
The speed is wild, the boat is flying, the breakers are exploding, and he sits, clinging to
solemn, and above it behind the stern a six-meter shaft of water hangs, in
which he puts incessantly.
Have you seen that when water skiing a skier is impatient to think
on a big scale? Well, how will he do all this?
Everyone off duty lines up to watch. The stern is sloping,
you climb over the rails, and it seems as if the screws are tearing the deck from under your feet.
You carefully lower your pants with one hand: first one panties, then
instant interception and then another. And the main thing is that your pants are lower
your knees didn’t collapse, otherwise if you turn, you’ll have to wear your pants down
throw yourself over the railing and run headlong, otherwise the shaft will catch up with
with his gaping mouth and wet his ass right up to his armpits with a giant blotter.
And so, you know, at the dew point she’s all in tears.
Then I rubbed it between the buns with a piece of paper, if it wasn’t completely wet, of course,
and dive through the railing.
I’m telling you all this, by the way, so that you will understand,
we felt and imagined how great it would be to serve on boats.
And one day this is what happened. Come with us to the sea to caulk one jacket
idiot from the institute. The weather is wonderful, we've been at speed for four hours already, and
suddenly he had an urge, you know? We see he is looking for something. I walked and walked and searched,
Finally he asks, they say, where are you - exclusives - they are crap on a big scale.
Well, we told him and showed him how it all happens: someone even
climbed down and demonstrated. He looked and said:
- No, I’d rather be patient.
Well, be patient. A little more time passes - we see he’s sad
man disappears. Well, we encouraged him, like, come on, don’t be embarrassed, we all
such, unsmeared cormorants, has happened to everyone.
Well, he went. I just climbed over and clung to the railing when, on you,
slipped and, without letting go of the handrail, fell into the screws, but what was interesting was
to watch so that his legs were not bitten off to the very elbow, he managed to gracefully
bend over and throw them over your back. It’s not just a person, but a snake, a holy thing! IN
the ball has curled up.
We pulled him out: he was shaking, burning, eyes in the back of his head. Finally calmed down
he took off his panties carefully with one finger, because he had managed to shit himself,
put them in a separate pile and stands, resting, and in his pants - full
the vinaigrette.
The boatswain tells him:
- You, science, don’t move, otherwise you smell like a multivitamin. Stand on
the place is calm, we'll bring you a sawn-off shotgun with water - you can wash yourself, and we'll take your pants now
Let's rinse, the fish also want to eat.
With these words, the boatswain grabbed them over the sling, and did not
“Science” had time to be surprised at how he is a thrower! - they are overboard and held by the scribbles,
rinses.
The boatswain gave the end of the drawer to this old fool and instructed:
- Count, science, to twenty and choose slowly.
I don’t know whether this scientist chose not humanly, or whether he,
on the contrary, it was slightly damaged, but only the pants were tightened under the screws. Barely a scientist
torn off.
And we brought him a sawn-off shotgun. Nothing, I washed myself.
Source: Alexander Pokrovsky. "...Shoot"

Answer from 22 answers[guru]

Hello! Here is a selection of topics with answers to your question: Where did they go to the toilet on sailing ships of the 16th-18th centuries?

Answer from philosophy[guru]
to the latrine

Answer from European[guru]
Overboard. xD

Answer from Survey[guru]
overboard, the men had no problems with this, but as for the rest, it was either in a bucket and overboard, or there was such a device in the form of a board with a hole hanging over the side.

In pursuit of romance modern people they forget about the simple but completely inevitable human needs that people of the past had, just like we do. Many people tend to idealize antiquity, erasing from attention the unsightly aspects of human life in past eras.

Often you could notice and admire the figureheads of sailing ships. Many of them are real works of carpentry art. A beautiful sailboat, with snow-white sails, proudly sailing along the waves of the endless ocean! The sun, seagulls and the bottomless azure sky across the entire horizon! It takes your breath away from the beautiful image and fantasies evoked by ideas from childhood.





However, few people know that in addition to the name “nasal”, a more prosaic one was used - “latrine”. And that's why.
So, first of all, we need to figure it out - where did the sailors and passengers of ancient sailing ships go to carry out their natural needs? Where were the latrines for the crew, passengers and officers located? “Why start with this?” - you ask, and I will answer - “Because no one ever asks about this, and yet some people have questions.” And so we answer:

Bow of a sailing ship with wooden crate
Latrine (toilets) on sailing ships of the 16th - 18th centuries were located in the bow (for the crew and passengers) and at the stern (for the ship's officers). The bow of a sailboat, which we usually see in our fantasies and dreams, is nothing more than a ship’s latrine, richly decorated with carved statues and wooden monograms. Latrine is an overhang at the bow of a sailing ship. Exactly!

Swedish warship "Vasa", raised from the bottom of the sea. Pay attention to the wooden boxes and lattice flooring. These are toilets and a grated urinal for sailors

The model clearly conveys the purpose of the bow of the sailboat.
A typical early 18th-century sailing ship's latrine was a seat with a hole at the bottom. Since the toilet was located on an open area of ​​the deck, this place was very dangerous for a person, since only thin handrails or stretched ropes separated it from the sea elements. Therefore, the surging wave often washed the unwary sailor overboard. And being in the water in the middle of the open sea is certain death. A person will be thrown in different directions, covered with a stream of water, which can cause him to simply choke. But even in the most successful set of circumstances, when the comrades immediately noticed the one who found himself overboard and sounded the alarm, it happened that the ship went so far under sail that it was no longer possible from above to throw a rope to the drowning sailor and lift him back on board. A man could not catch up with the ship by swimming, because the speed of a sailing ship with sufficient wind was much greater than the speed of a swimming man.
Due to insecurity, sailors did not like latrines. Not wanting to risk their lives again, many sailors considered it preferable to go somewhere behind a cannon or hide in a dark corner of the hold.
Therefore, in the Russian maritime regulations of 1720, it was stated that the ship's provos - the official in charge of keeping prisoners and carrying out corporal punishment - monitored the cleanliness on board and detained those responsible for creating unsanitary conditions. But even fines and the threat of being flogged could not force particularly timid sailors to visit the latrines at the bow of the ship.


And here is how things stood with the senior officers and the captain of the ship.
The senior ranks of the ship's crew did not use sailors' latrines. The living conditions of officers in the navy were naturally better than those of ordinary sailors. They stayed in a spacious wardroom (and somewhere from the middle of the 18th century in separate cabins), ate better, and had personal servants. So the toilet at the ship’s command was much safer than the sailors’ latrines.

At the stern of the wooden sailing ship there were protruding stulets - round overhangs on the sides at the stern of the ship. One of them contained navigational instruments and nautical charts, the other housed a closed cabin for the officer's toilet. (On larger ships, there was a two-story room in the stultz, in which there was a latrine and a washstand below, and a real captain’s bathtub on top). One can argue about the convenience of this cramped closet, but in any case, at least the person in it did not risk being left behind. So, with all the advantages of life for officers on a sailing ship, perhaps one of the most significant privileges was a safe latrine.