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| Continuing aft
through another watertight door is the aft battery, that also derived its name from the
battery of 126 lead-acid type electric cells stored in the space below its
deck plates. The forward end
of the compartment, above the deck plates, contained the ship’s galley.
The cooks prepared food for the entire ship’s company there.
Immediately aft of the galley was the crew’s mess hall,
containing four fixed tables, with stationary benches on each side.
The room seated a total of twenty-four men. Below the mess
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| Aft of the mess hall was the crew quarters. It contained a total of thirty-six stainless steel framed
bunks, stacked in four rows running fore and aft.
The crew’s duty assignments while at sea were four hours on watch
and eight hours off watch, thus there was always someone sleeping.
The chief of the boat assigned some bunks
to more than one person (known as “hot bunking”), since there were not enough bunks for every
member of the crew. That
meant that men from different watch times were assigned to the same bunk.
A metal door at the after end of the sleeping space was the entry
into the crew’s head area. It
contained two stalls with heads; two stall showers and two washbasins.
It also held an automatic laundry machine. |
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