Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter
Around the turn of the 20th Century there was a need to strengthen the Merchant Navy, and for the first time young women were considered.
Discipline was brutal, and although females were subject to neither the cat o’ nine tails nor the practice of keelhauling they were liable to be put one of over the heavy guns the ship had and once tied down tight they would be leathered on their bare bottom in front of the crew, who of course encouraged the severest thrashing of the helpless girl.
The practice was known as “Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter”
Around the turn of the 20th Century there was a need to strengthen the Merchant Navy, and for the first time young women were considered.
Discipline was brutal, and although females were subject to neither the cat o’ nine tails nor the practice of keelhauling they were liable to be put one of over the heavy guns the ship had and once tied down tight they would be leathered on their bare bottom in front of the crew, who of course encouraged the severest thrashing of the helpless girl.
The practice was known as “Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter”