Back in the nineteenth century used to give their sailors 8 pints of rum a day and it was such a hard job they needed it to cope with the provissions and I was on a week work experience when 14 as i had stayed at redford barracks in the army and we called ourselfs boy soldiers like Davy Dunbar but when I got to go to hull I jamp at the chance and we were told things like people wold get what was sippers which was a tradition in which rookie and boy soldiers got a sip of the Captains Rum and one day a rookie was given a sip and he necked the lot without realising so the officer went without. That tradition has died out  due to alchoolism in the services and also the job is not so hardyou have to be drunk.