{"id":9623,"date":"2014-10-06T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2014-10-06T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T10:00:34","slug":"life-aboard-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/life-aboard-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE ABOARD SHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/06-Oct-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9563 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/06-Oct-14-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"06 Oct 14\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 06 October 1914 &#8211; Of life on board ship, Duguid in his \u201cOfficial History\u201d wrote: &#8211; \u201cThe routine on board the transports was left to the commander of the troops in consultation with the captain of the ship.\u00a0 Reveille as a rule was at 5:30 or 6:30 a.m., followed by physical exercises and breakfast from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m.\u00a0 The forenoon was occupied with sweeping, cleaning, guard mounting, and morning parades.\u00a0 The hour of the midday meal varied from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., after which the afternoon parade was held.\u00a0 Morning and afternoon parades included rifle exercise, squad and section drill, signalling, physical exercises and fire drill.\u00a0 On all ships boat drill was carried out at least twice during the voyage and several muster parades were held; on Sundays there were church parades, and on Saturday sports.<\/p>\n<p>Lectures for officers were delivered at 5:00p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; tea for the men was at 6:00 p.m.; dinner for the officers at 7:00 p.m., and although \u201cLights Out\u201d was sounded at 9:15 p.m. time was found in almost every ship for concerts, when local talent provided entertainment, and the usual collection was made for seamen\u2019s charities.\u00a0 The daily run \u2013 from 200-250 miles \u2013 and the noon position aroused the usual interest, and although the sending of wireless by the transports was forbidden \u201cexcept in the case of dire necessity,\u201d news of the outside world was picked up by wireless from passing vessels or from the Marconi station at Poldhu [south Cornwall, England]. Most of the transports were amply provisioned, but in several there were complaints as to both quantity and quality; in one the troops were called upon to grind cargo wheat for their own subsistence.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/vimyridgehistory.com\/\">Editing with Traces of the Past<\/a>; http:\/\/vimyridgehistory.com\/kit-1\/cda-rallies\/armada\/aboard\/#gallery\/344\/5065\/0<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201c<em>Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1<\/em>, <em>Part 1,<\/em> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pp. 100-101.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 06 October 1914 &#8211; Of life on board ship, Duguid in his \u201cOfficial History\u201d wrote: &#8211; \u201cThe routine on board the transports was left to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}