Commercial firework displays are commonly launched from boats or other vessels

[A]ll hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays […] And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would not have to pay one stiver.

The fasciculol poisons in the sulfur tuft damage the stomach and intestines, causing vomiting and diarrhea.

Times are they fraught with peril, trouble, gloom; / We have to mark their lourings and to face them.