mess cooks in whites sure, but blues are awfully expensive work clothes, let alone at sea... but i guess it's possible
Posted on 07/16/2018 10:11:36 AM PDT by NRx
Film footage documenting life on a Colorado class battleship circa 1925. (B&W silent appx 9 minutes)
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I just read “Battleship Sailor” by a sailor that was on the USS California before and during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Good read.
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When that one ends it goes to a 1952 film of living conditions on a destroyer. When I served (’61-’64) not a lot had changed, but my ship was larger and so was less cramped in living space.
“I just read “Battleship Sailor” by a sailor that was on the USS California before and during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Good read.”
It was a good book. I read many years ago. As I recall, many sailors were very morally loose.
I blame that on the salt water making you horny.
BTT to watch later
Blues? at SEA??? staged is right...
I’m not sure. In the (really) old days, before WWII, the Navy was a lot stricter about where and when dungaree working uniforms could be worn. Yes, sailors did sometimes wear an undress version of both whites and blues at sea back then.
Interesting watching the mess cooks setting up the mess tables in the berthing compartments. No central mess decks for the crew to eat. They dined in their berthing spaces.
The food was brought to the compartment in pots called tureens. After meals, the mess kits and tables were stowed out of the way so that the crew could sling their hammocks to sleep at night.
mess cooks in whites sure, but blues are awfully expensive work clothes, let alone at sea... but i guess it's possible
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