Please, Please all of you.
Yer brass monkey was a landlubbers affectation. On board ship they had shelves/cradles/racks that could hold all the balls in a howling gale.
there was a thread on this about 6/7 months ago. the Walrus was most authorititive on this and BTW the recent programme on Nelson on UK BBC TV recreated below-decks battle scenes and those racks were all too obvious when you looked for them, and not single brass or iron triangle/square in site let alone piles of castiron dog-doo sitting in them. & They said there that Nelson was pickled in brandy but no more on that subject - hence my other thread.

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