Seafaring in the 18th century came with a unique language of its own — and you’re probably using it to this day.
Author David Grann became familiar with naval terms and phrases while writing The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, a true story about the captain and crew of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager.
The book tells the tale of the British warship, which set out on a secret mission in the 1740s to capture a Spanish galleon filled with treasure. But along the way, the ship encounters trouble and eventually becomes wrecked on an island off Patagonia in Chile. The
