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Description: | Broken lime juice bottle from the site of Deptford victualling yard. Naval Arctic expeditions could not carry enough fresh food to provide themselves with vitamin C so they took it with them in the form of lemon juice. This kept them healthy for two to three years. By 1875 lemon had been replaced by lime juice, which was cheaper but not so effective. All Nares's sledge parties were badly affected by scurvy, their vitamin deficiencies made worst by the heavy labour of man-hauling. Severe pain and swelling in the crew's joints forced them to return to base and the expedition left for home after only one year.
The two parts of the broken lime juice bottle are numbered GGG0456.1 & GGG0456.2.
caption: Parts of Naval issue lime juice bottle | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | bottles | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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