{"id":16158,"date":"2024-09-12T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=16158"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:47:53","slug":"white-phosphorus-misadventures21-what-shall-we-do-with-a-poisoned-sailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=16158","title":{"rendered":"White phosphorus misadventures#21 What shall we do with a poisoned sailor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13557\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4-300x296.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4-300x296.png 300w, http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4.png 322w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though white phosphorus was used for murderous purposes in the form of rat poison, its availability in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries made it a ridiculously easy suicide choice.<\/p>\n<p>One such example is told in the\u00a0<strong>8th October 1896 Morecambe Visitor\u00a0<\/strong>and concerns a sailor called Harry Gill. Gill had been arrested for jumping ship, but had admitted to taking poison containing P4 on board the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HMS_Gossamer_%281890%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HMS Gossamer.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It does seem to have been a rather rash course of action for such a petty crime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/poisoned-sailor.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16159\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/poisoned-sailor-300x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/poisoned-sailor-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/poisoned-sailor.png 669w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/gj1UlvLkW6YAAAAM\/popeye-the-sailor-puffy-cheeks.gif\" alt=\"Popeye Spinach GIF | Tenor\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though white phosphorus was used for murderous purposes in the form of rat poison, its availability in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries made it a ridiculously easy suicide choice. One such example is told in the\u00a08th October 1896 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=16158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16161,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158\/revisions\/16161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}