According to the Woodlands Junior School Site, a single voyage of a Tudor sailor could last for several years. Please see the related links for more information.
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Life was extremely bad, there food would be dirty and rotten. Also the ships would have been infested with mice and worms. Aswell as that though many sailors had to sleep on deck in cold winter nights with just there 1 set of clothes on. Isn't that awful?
the swallow symbolises home. as sailors in the navy would see swallows as they got closer to home from the sea.
What were two reasons why were the first explorers fearful to sail?
The ships' biscuits became infested with beetles because nobody had found a method of preventing the beetles getting into the biscuits. This continued for hundreds of years after the Tudors.
Sea biscuits and salt cod and meat as sailors ate on ships those days