On his travels through Central America, the priest Jean de Lery reported hammocks "Always when we were in new villages, we were seated, according to custom in hammocks."
In the diaries of Columbus and Pero Vaz de Caminha in 1500 is reported by hammocks. When Columbus arrived in the New World, he hoped to raw materials, spices and the like to find. In the Bahamas, he found the hammock and brought it to Europe.

Soon realized, many European sailors hammock as perfect sleeping place on board. She served as a protection against injury in his sleep on rough seas, because they always mitschwingte.

By 1600, the British Royal Navy put the hammock for your sailors. The sailors used sailcloth for your hammock. This material was hardly permeable to air and the sailors sweating at night. Each sailor was allowed only hammocks with a maximum width of about 15 cm! During battles, you had your hammocks rolled up in tight bundles at the doll board (gunwale - a platform for artillery) stowed. You should protect against small caliber shots.