Does anyone know what early explorers used for a toilet on the ship? Do you think a bucket, or hole in floor?

Question

Does anyone know what early explorers used for a toilet on the ship? Do you think a bucket, or hole in floor?

Answer 1

Call me stupid, but could you really use a hole in the floor?

Think about it real hard!

Is it meant to be a trick question? Cause I  really wouldn't want a hole in the floor of my boat.

Answer 2

Hole in the floor> Look out below> Oak bucket>

Answer 3

a bucket. that gets emptied overboard immediately afterward. Some people still use a bucket. Where do you think the captain goes when there has to be a licensed person in the wheelhouse at all times (no toilet up there)...

Answer 4

They used holes in the floor to create bidets, not toilets.

Answer 5

They did not use buckets. They crapped over the side of the ship.

They usually used the catheads (which hold the anchors when at sea) as a platform to squat on.

They did not use the p**p deck.

Answer 6

most just used the scupppers, others had more class or discipline and had to crawl out onto the netting or roped area alongside the bow sprit. Chamber pots were mostly used by officers and emptied by low ranking crew or slaves.

Answer 7

I would guess a bucket

Answer 8

They would have just gone over the edge.

Answer 9

Thats right! they used a hole in thier boat. The titanic had a very large toilet hole.

(They used a bucket)

Answer 10

The days of early exploration were before the development of "proper" toilets anyway but chamber (toilet) pots have been around for a number of years so the bucket theory is looking strongest