Jul 24, 2021
6 min read
Keelhauling — Torture By Being Dragged on Ship’s Bottom
“The ship’s bottom, covered with barnacles, rasped upon the poor devils like nails”
“Yesterday I tried to write a description of a most horrible sight. It was so revoltingly cruel, so barbarous, so infamously brutal, that I gave it up.” — a special correspondent of the London Morning Advertiser in 1882.
