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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For those unaware, a navy-style rum is a high-proof expression distilled and bottled to taste like the spirit rationed to the ...

Here’s your game plan for this Sunday: download and crank up a sea shanty, hold aloft a tot of dark, tasty rum, observe a moment of silence, and then swiftly knock it back. For Sunday marks the 46th ...

WASHINGTON — March’s string of bomb cyclones and nor’easters are a nuisance for those craving more springlike weather, but the winter storms are good news for one local distillery. Down in the hold of ...

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 ...

Three flagons of rum issued by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to Royal Navy sailors are up for sale after 50 years. The centuries-old tradition of giving seamen a daily ration of rum to prevent scurvy ...

Rum isn't just the preferred drink of pirates: For more than 300 years, the booze was also part of the daily rations of sailors in Britain's Royal Navy. The tradition began in the 17th century, when ...

Say what you will about drunken sailors of yore, but they came by their reputation honestly, with the British Navy giving them free alcohol. Now you can get a taste for what some of them were rationed ...

It is a fine tradition among Royal Navy submariners. Recruits down a glass of rum containing a coveted silver badge, catching it in their teeth. But the ‘bonding’ ritual may be banned on health and ...

Sailors toast the birth of a child to the Duke of Edinburgh with glasses of rum, 1948 Credit: Photo: Corbis SIR – Your report (July 29) on the sale of the last remaining stocks of original Navy rum ...