by Joe J. Simmons · Chatham Publishing · tapa dura · ISBN 9781861760432
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«Those Vulgar Tubes» is Joe J. Simmons III's maritime history essay, published by Chatham Publishing in hardback (97 pages, in English).
The book studies a forgotten aspect of life on board: the sanitary facilities of European ships between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. With archaeological and iconographic evidence, it reviews the bow and stern latrines, how sailors relieved themselves, and how these influenced naval design. It includes drawings, photographs, and those of the Vasa's «seats of ease».
The full subtitle is «External Sanitary Accommodations Aboard European Ships of the Fifteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries». The cover indicates it is the second edition, published in 1998.
Of interest to nautical archaeologists, maritime historians, and enthusiasts of life at sea in the age of sail.
