Fall Asleep as a Coal Trimmer Aboard a Steamship Crossing the Atlantic

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Tonight, descend below the passenger decks of a transatlantic steamship and experience the voyage as a coal trimmer.

While passengers admire endless ocean views, enjoy warm meals, and relax beneath electric lights, your world is made of coal dust, furnace heat, iron machinery, and the endless scrape of a shovel. Deep inside the ship, you spend your watches moving tons of coal through dark bunkers, keeping the boilers supplied and helping maintain the enormous machine carrying hundreds of...