[kabar]

"His body lay in an alcohol filled coffin in an unmarked grave in a cemetary for foreign Protestants for over a century." How fitting for a sailor.

[AnAmericanMother]

Yup. They kept Lord Nelson in a barrel of rum to take him home after Trafalgar. As a result, the rum ration was known as "Nelson's blood," and sneaking a dram was known as "tapping the Admiral."