What vitamin deficiency is most common among sailors?

Avitaminosis is a common disease in our time. When the body does not get enough vitamins, fatigue, drowsiness and mood deteriorate. Gums may bleed, joints ache, skin peels off. Seafarers especially suffered from this disease. In the XIV, XV centuries, ships could already go to sea for several months. But, at that time there were no opportunities to preserve food and water supplies. Therefore, even those products that were on the ship quickly deteriorated from constant dampness. After a few weeks, the sailors began to get sick with scurvy. This is a type of vitamin deficiency, which is characterized by a critical lack of vitamin C. This vitamin was not present in the diet at all. Tooth loss was added to all the symptoms of this disease. The lack of basic hygiene contributed to the spread of various infections. Many could not cope with the disease and died. Scurvy was the main enemy of the sailors.