The Royal Navy’s successful invasion of Jamaica in 1655 had a lot of terribly negative outcomes. The commanders ended up in the Tower of London. Many of the English sailors fell sick or starved. A lot ...

THE SUN IS OUT, and so are the boats. Those of you reclining on the briny (or even just on Lake Union) in your masted vessel might prefer to sip mai tais or daiquiris, but the die-hard nostalgics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting in the mid 1700s, sailors in the British Navy were given a daily ration of rum—a “tot,” as it became known. The practice ...

Back in the day, long-haul pirates and the sailors of the British Royal Navy didn’t just use rum for recreation. To keep the crew hydrated, ships typically stored three types of liquid sustenance: ...

Leander-class frigate at their last rum ration, known in the navy as Black Tot Day, on HMS Ajax, UK, 31st July 1970. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty images) On this day in 1970, ...

In the Royal Navy the daily rum ration was used as a kind of currency on board ship and was termed "sippers and gulpers". If you did a mate on board a favour you could claim sippers and gulpers from ...

Remember last year when everyone went crazy for ol’ Pappy Van Winkle bourbon? At Christmas it was THE bottle to get…that no one could seem to get. This time the bottle booze nerds everywhere are ...

Smuggler's Cove is celebrating one of the most famous days in rum history tomorrow: Black Tot Day, 40th anniversary of the end of a 300-year-old British Royal Navy tradition of the sailor's rum ration ...