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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,Alice Springs former HM2 (AC)	Help: meaning of 'in bed w/ captain's daughter' (78* d)	RE: Help: meaning of 'in bed w/ captain's daughter'	12 Oct 25
The captain‘s daughter was a euphemism for the cat of Ninetails that they would scourge a sailor with. To put him in bed with the captains daughter meant he had been flogged and then put in bed to let the pain argue with him. Nothing to do with anything other than a punishment.

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