What SURVIVAL & Camping Gear would a Sailor from 100 Years Ago Carry?

In this video I go through my camping and survival gear that I took on a recent 3 day coastal adventure. This is equipment that could of been found in the 1900s and something a shipwrecked sailor would have available to him.
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00:00 The history of shipwrecks in Australia
01:20 Traditional canvas kit bag / duffle bag
02:03 1900s food and tucker bag
02:46 Traditional oil skin tarp as shelter
03:21 Camping with a woolen blanket
03:51 1930s WW2 water canteen
04:27 Sailors baccy pipe
04:55 The history of Redhead matches in Australia
05:16 1946 Navy knife
06:08 1900s Sailors clothing
07:17 Oil skin clothing
#wildcamping #survivalskills #bushcraft #shelterbuilding

[@kurts64]

Awesome, this was a cool concept great that you stuck with the old school gear. Glad to see that knife with the marlin spike pop up. Its surprising how far back some of the things we take for granted go, like the tinned food, rubber boots, oilskin; and they all still work just as well or better than they did back then! Full credit to ya for lugging that sack around though haha
I think its kind of underrated by most aussies the impact that the seal/whaling trade had back in the day, alongside the more well known ones like logging, sheep, and cattle.
Keep up the vids! 👍👍

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Cheers, thanks for watching.
In my research I was surprised to find how far back some things went. Yeah sealers / whalers really were the first Europeon explorers who opened up the coastline. While settlements stuck to places like Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney .. it was the sealers/whalers that first settled most of our modern day coastal towns. Though their lifestyles and behaviours were often brutal.

[@kurts64]

@@TheBeardedBushranger yeah they would have been a rugged mob back in the day

[@Jeffrhodes-pl7rc]

​@@TheBeardedBushrangeris it just me but have all the legitimate army navy surplus stores a thing of the past? I know the one you mentioned but there's not alot of real dealers as opposed to say the mid late 80s and they were everywhere with actual surplus gear from all army's over the world. Amazing stuff that would be worth a fortune as I,ve looked. Just another thing disappeared to another brand named store were everywhere is from China and Bangladesh. It's a bloody shame. Try and buy a wool blanket your Nanna had tons of the horrible scratching buggers and you,ll pay an arm and a leg. Obviously there's still a large demand but the last one I now of in Adelaide shut down 7 -8 years ago. It's got a all round supermarket 😕😢😮‍💨. Oh well time moves on regardless of good or bad and watching your vids are great but reminds me what our country has morphed into in 25 years. A sad bloody state of affairs when a fella can't buy some old combat boots unless they're $400 and falling apart. Another great video mate.

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

@@Jeffrhodes-pl7rc I know what you mean mate. Everything is becoming cheap plastic and it's hard to get quality stuff from the past.
Have you heard of these two shops?
www.armyandoutdoors.com.au/
www.aussiediggermilitaria.com/

[@damo.77]

Really enjoy your videos mate, love how you stick with the tradition of the time and the history associated with that. Really cool and interesting stuff your putting out.

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Thanks damo! It's been a great journey learning more about the old fellas.

[@DiabloOutdoors]

100% well said!

[@dananorth895]

Canned sardines and tuna, just what a sailer wants to see more of. Lol
Although familiarity of diet and "rations" makes sense.

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

haha, I wonder if they would eat tinned fish out on the sea, or stick to more land based rations like cheese and crackers.

[@BushKayakersCampingAustralia]

Thanks Luke . Yeah hey , many fascinating stories of shipwrecks tragedy and survival along that part of the coast . Much great reading for anyone who is into Australian and maritime history . so many interesting museums along that way too

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Yeah plenty of musuems along our coastal towns that go in details of different shipwrecks! I've always found it a pretty intriging thing. Thanks for watching.

[@sailingseriously2035]

Loving what you are producing Luke.
Keep up the great work. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Ian

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Thanks heaps Ian! Appreciate the watch and the comment.

[@davidneal6920]

Thats awesome mate. Like the way you had a water container and an old school pocket knife. I imagine on many coasts access to drinking water would have been a problem. Must have been a tough environment to survive in unless you were fortunate to find a nice spot with clean fresh water and some source of food 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Yeah fresh clean water would be an issue, though I do find that in the cooler months, walk long enough along the coast and you are bound to find a stream or river. Also coastal survival is always much easier then inland, because of the bountiful sources of protien that is easy to obtain.
In reality a shipwreck survivor might not have a full kit bag full of the goods that I brought on this trip haha so I made it a bit easy on myself here.

[@serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi3874]

Very informative video. Thank you. 😀

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Thanks!

[@DmitryKDV]

thank you it's was interesting 👍

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Thanks for watching.

[@cookscatapults]

Hahahaha That was Awesomenessssss....Thanks for the Info

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Cheers mate.

[@michaelsewell3706]

Thanks for sharing Luke 👍

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Thanks for watching.

[@mattiyogi1018]

tinned rabbit would have been the go for that time

[@dananorth895]

I would think tinned beef and chicken would be abundent.

[@mattiyogi1018]

@@dananorth895 look up the history of Kingston canning and preserving factory and other enterprises that operated out of South Australia during the 19th century.There was a rabbit plague during that time with millions of rabbits being trapped and poisoned that supported food,tannery and associated industries.Most likely sailors ate tinned rabbit on such voyages as it was the cheaper than bully beef and mutton.Chicken was for Christmas lunch

[@iantooke3549]

Cool vid

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Cheers mate.

[@KatooR-Outdoor..]

Nice

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Thanks for watching.

[@moorshound3243]

This is great.
I have to ask what the temperature it is you are camping in? I find my wool blanket good all the way down to about 8 C without a fire.
I thought that Australia was hot?

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Gday mate. Yeah Australia is hot in the center and up north .. I'm down south in a place called victoria (though it's not as cold as tasmania) although we get very hot summers (up to 40.c) our winters can go down to -2.c where I am, and -10.c up in the mountains.
On this trip I'd say it was right around that range of 7.c to 8.c .. so just enough to feel the cold, but still get a decent nights sleep.
I also know that those winter temperatures are nothing compared to europe or north america. The only issue in Victoria where I am from, the winter cold often comes with wind and rain which makes it a bit hard.

[@ike8236]

Are they the Burke and Will's pants?

[@ike8236]

Forget that, commented seconds before you said it.

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

haha yeah I think I called them chaps in the video but they are actually the carpentaria overpants. I love wearing them out in the snow as well.

[@poesaste]

Any good books you recommend for Aussie sailor stories?

[@Cloudzyi]

One good book about the sea is the sea is in my bedroom 👍👍👍👍by Margret wild

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

I have to find some more specificly Australian ones! Two of my favourite novels (Moby Dick by henry melville, and the sea is my brother by Jack kerouc) focus on life on the sea in the 1800's and 1900's.
A great book about the settling of tasmania, that has a bit of history of the whalers and sailors who transported goods is 'Van Diemens land' by James boyce .. and I have also heard that Tasmanian shipwrecks vol 1 is a good one. I might have to look at getting more Victorian focussed books though.

[@DiabloOutdoors]

Great video! But ...but ... what about THE most important of all? Vegemite!? No Aussie can survive more than a day without....

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Not a bad idea considering it was invented in Melbourne in 1923

[@DiabloOutdoors]

@@TheBeardedBushranger 1923...2024 .. good timing I guess lol :D You have a good channel and I`m happy to have discovered it. cheers from Canada!

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

@@DiabloOutdoors Thanks heaps for subbing and following along. Cool to see some international audiences here. You really have so much to choose from with outdoor content from Canada though!

[@DiabloOutdoors]

@@TheBeardedBushranger Yeah, but your content is original and you seem a very nice guy. So it's a fresh wind on a sometimes boring community. Keep going sailor!

[@TheBeardedBushranger]

Cheers mate, that's a great compliment!