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With 1350 men onboard Melbourne was cramped and uncomfortable. Men were bunked in the passageways. As a young officer I hot bunked in a cabin designed for four men, with 7 other officers. I hated that, so I used to sleep in the aft cable locker.....it was the quietest place on the ship
Wow! Interesting post parsifal!
I had a look around the Melbourne on occasions while working as a trainee draughtsman at Garden Island back in the early eighties and was appalled at living conditions. Maybe you can adjust my memory, but I was sure I saw an area (passageway) with what looked like six bunks stacked one above the other. Is my memory kaput?
Possessing no nautical blood, but to me one of the most impressive interiors was the USS Okinawa. Assault carrier? (I should google. There were very nice looking Cobras up top and until then never realised how small they really were).
One story (unconfirmed) has the sub pulling back into port a few days later, with everyone on board smelling alot worse (nobody was ready to go to sea) and a whole lot hungrier, to be met on the pier by Admiral Nimitz himself, who walked on board before the brow was even secured (he was like that) and immediately promoted every man on board a rank, for saving one of his boats (and, coincidentally, the attached reactor).