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By the time Britannia and the Royal Navy were ruling the waves, Lord Nelson’s men had hammock-racking down to a science. Each tar was allowed 14 inches of width for his hammock, now made of tough canvas to survive life on a man-o-war. Space below decks was cramped, but rank still had its privilege: Petty officers got a full two feet.
Ocean Motion
Traditionally, a sailor carried his hammock with him, tightly rolled around his sea bag. And, in the days of sail, he might be sewed into it for burial at sea with a cannonball for ballast.
It took World War II for the U. S. Navy to give up the hammock for the bunk bed on shipboard. Old hands were sorry to see it go, for the hanging canvas hammock tamed the ocean motion of a
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