success

there seems to be something lodged in the cannon

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In 1912 [the Australian prison ship, Success, turned museum ] crossed the Atlantic and spent more than two decades doing the same thing around the eastern seaboard of the United States of America and later in ports on the Great Lakes. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_(prison_ship)

If you look again, it seems that it is just the back of the bench that might appear to be lodged in the cannon.

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Ouch!

Reminds me of my dentist.

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The Success was a floating museum which "the horrors of penal transportation in Great Britain and the United States of America between the 1890s and the 1930s." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_(prison_ship)

What would this be used for?

What a freakin' hell ship !

If you were very naughty, you might be asked to remove your clothing and climb inside this vertical coffin, where of course it was pitch dark, there was no water, and fresh air was scarce. Then the box (which was clad in sheet iron) would stand in the hot sun until you got nice and warm. But you wouldn't want to slump or faint, because then your bare flesh might get snagged on the ends of the long nails that had been pounded into it from random directions . . . .

Sounds like my bus ride to Portland.