Talk:Tankard

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lol what is this

"The result leads us to a single question, can you separate taste from presentation?" 71.91.65.39 (talk) 07:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Press gangs. King's Shilling and Glass bottoms
The "King's shilling" stories are mostly exagerated or mythical.

"1. Any man pressed into the Royal Navy had eight days to appeal against his impressment. (Thus the idea of a man being coshed outside a tavern and waking up the next day miles out at sea is a myth.)

2. Physical force was only allowed if the prospective pressed man tried to run away. (Not that this rule was never broken, of course.)

3. No man who did not have a naval background could be pressed. That was why press gangs used to go round dockland taverns because most men there would have a naval background.

4. No man could be pressed if he had a wife or dependent children. Both 3 and 4 could be used at any appeal at an appeal.

5. There were strict age limits to impressment (from 17 to 45 from memory, but don't quote me).

6. Sailors could be pressed from a merchant ship, but any pressed sailor could still use 4 and 5 as an appeal against impressment. The merchant ship must still be left with enough sailors to safely sail it back to port. In effect many sailors volunteered for impressment when a press gang visited their ship because conditions were often better on Royal Navy ships. Food and pay were certainly better. (The magazine also exploded the myth about maggots in biscuits.)

As a result there were very few pressed sailors at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Fewer than 10% of Royal Navy sailors were pressed. Far more sailors were pressed in the French Navy and this is given as one reason why the Royal Navy won the battle. (Volunteers had greater commitment, usually had more experience and were better trained.)"

See also http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?p=163036

1Z (talk) 19:21, 11 September 2011 (UTC)


 * What "magazine also exploded"? The ship's gunpowder magazine? 2.31.162.66 (talk) 02:44, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

In popular culture
There is also a metal band called 'Tankard'. --62.16.186.44 (talk) 11:25, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Mug
I was watching the 1968 film The Boscombe Valley Mystery, wherein Sherlock Holmes ordered a tankard of cider. When it arrived, I thought, "That's a mug." I came to Wikipedia to discover the difference between mugs and tankards. From the respective articles, they appear to be the same thing. Yet neither article mentions the other. That doesn't seem appropriate somehow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:BC65:4B79:91F8:B50A:1B1B:23E5 (talk) 10:12, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

As trophies
Surely needs a section to describe this use case and origin?  Tu rk ey ph an t 11:37, 29 March 2024 (UTC)