24 Hours Aboard a Pirate Ship in 1715 | Boring History For Sleep

S23E9 - 24 Hours Aboard a Pirate Ship in 1715 | Boring History For Sleep

Published: September 29, 2026

Duration: 5:41:54

Your hammock is below deck, breakfast isn't exactly promising, and somebody has already handed you a job you don't remember volunteering for. Welcome aboard. For the next 24 hours, we're living as part of a pirate crew in 1715.

From the moment morning begins, we'll follow the rhythm of an ordinary day at sea: waking in cramped quarters, sharing food and water, maintaining the ship, climbing through the rigging, keeping watch, navigating by the tools available at the time, and finding ways to pass the long hours when absolutely nothing dramatic is happening.

And that's where pirate...