i LOVE when you are treating the camera person like the viewer.. "come on through the door and lets turn around" Basically talking to the camera person like they were on a curators tour.
I guess there's a good chance that it's Libby I thought it would be funny if in a situation like that he would say, come on Soldier move it move it move it? I wonder if New Jersey has a dog house?😮😂😂😊
I've noticed that, too. I sure does make it like you're there and Ryan is giving you a personal tour. This is one of the many reasons I love these awesome videos.
On that small plaque by the door with the Compartment Cleaner that is labeled "as assigned" because it's changed weekly - I was LPO on the USS Richmond K Turner (CG-20) of Fox Division and standard policy was to rotate cleaning duties among the junior enlisted E-4 and below. No one in the Navy cleans a compartment (and head) for their entire tour!!!
Marine berthing aboard LSTs and LPDs in the late 80's early 90's were pipe racks, stacked four high. The LHA I got to spend time on had flat racks (no storage), also four high. I found the older, pipe racks to be more comfortable. The ones we had were canvas stretched and held tight to the pipe frame with ropes. They had a little give to them. The metal flat racks had no give to them. The thin mattress pads weren't great. Worse, the EEBDs in the flat racks made it difficult to move around and get comfortable, even for average-sized guys.
That was luxury compared to what we had on the old USS DIXIE a destroyer tender - oldest ship in the Navy at the time (mid 70s). Canvas racks, 4 high. Thin mattress - very little storage - but, we did have AC in the berthing compartments. Our dept was lucky - we were stuck in a small pullman below the MAIN berthing area for supply division ... so it was quiet down there.
When I was on the USS Trenton, LPD-14, I had a bottom rack. It was on the outside and I installed a fan, 14" above the deck, pointing right at my rack. The XO did an inspection and asked about it. I was a hull tech, BTW. He was told who did that, and just went on with his inspection. Within 3 days, I had gotten over 50 requests, to have fans installed. LOL
I had a great rack on LUCE. My rack was a bottom rack up against the hull with a small area between the rack and the hull. I hear the water rushing by. Very comfy.
i actually remember sleeping over as a boy scout on this ship (if my memory serves me correct, it WAS the battleship new jersey). it was one of the coolest experiences of my childhood!
Much similarity to the few weeks I spent on a carrier. We were a Marine/Navy pilot training squadron and only hit the deck for a little at a time (myself being a Marine Airframe tech on F-18's). I've been on the Stennis and the Lincoln. Both were similar in layout for berthing. Half my time was with my unit and the other half spent lending a hand on the mess deck, where they worked my @$$ so long that I began to wish I was back in Marine Boot Camp so I could catch a bit of down time. The Petty Officer wasn't a jerk, he was just one of those E-5's who OWNED the space. I mean, I worked 15 hour days, but this guy worked so hard that his next two superiors in the chain of command probably had nothing else left to do themselves! Just seeing this guy go inspired me to no longer regard how long I spent at work.
I was initial manning on an Ohio class SSBN and we chose racks by rank. Those have 9 man (3x3) enlisted bunk rooms outboard of the missile tubes with racks similar to these. The bunkroom had a curtain between the tubes out to the main passage way to keep it dark as the lights were always off (except for field day). You got a privacy curtain, light, ventilation register, small foot locker (in your bunk down by your feet), a bed pan, a larger drawer off to the side, and a common large locker so everyone could hang uniforms or store other BS. The outboard guys sometimes got a little access cubby they could hide stuff on and those racks were well known/coveted. Heads were common to everyone (fore and aft). The goat locker and officer staterooms were up forward. Senior guy was usually the middle rack....but not always. Top rack had a handle attached to the overhead to use to swing in. God help you if you step on someone's rack trying to get in. The "messenger" would get you up for watch. If he was worth a crap, he would be quiet. Most of the time, the would fling open the curtain....that alone would wake you up. Losing ventilation would do it too......drill time. You didn't have much room to roll over, you would adopt the "flip". I just about bounce my wife out of bed between patrols because it is hard to stop doing.
@@brianbalster3521 No......an under bed ("rack") pan similar but not as deep to what was shown by Ryan. Plank Owner USS Alaska...the 7th Ohio Class boat.
My bunk on the USS Sculpin, SSN 590, was just off the centerline on the port side. I had a middle bunk fwd of the battery well and to the port side of one of the periscopes and battery breaker. Zero traffic. Three of us, an E-4, an E-5 & me an E6 shared this space. On a Med Run we hung a blanket closing off the passage and opened a ventilation duct. It was about as private a space as an officers state room and about 5° cooler than the rest of berthing. The berthing space was dark at sea so no one of importance ever noticed. That was until one field day that the lights came on. Needless to say the COB was not pleased. Eventually I was moved to the berthing in the torpedoroom upper level, which was not as good as our little stateroom.
I was always shore based so things were a little more comfortable. For the last two years I even had my own room so it was the lap of luxury, though the head was down the hall. My dad, a submariner, says I was only sort-of in the Navy 🤣
The bunks are familiar from when I was on USS Nassau and USS Kennedy in the 80s (aside, we refueled the New Jersey from the Kennedy off Lebanon in 83) but we didn't have any flat racks, they were all the locker type. Middle bunk was the best, easier to get in than top and you didn't have to "trice up" in the morning.
That's why I tried to talk my granddaughter into joining the navy or air force because they at least almost always get hot meals and warm places to sleep even if it is in bunks. I think she is still looking at the marines though. Hope she enjoys sleeping in swamps. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely respect marines and thank god we have them. But, dang, they are hard core.
That brings back many memories. Very similar to what I had back on the USS Saratoga. Luckily our division had its own compartment. Made it nicer for sure. Those lockers under the bunks were called coffin lockers. We liked them better than the normal square lockers that those without the coffin lockers had.
Usually, In my experience when a guy with a "good" rack departed, if there was a senior guy with a less desirable rack HE could and often would stake claim to the better rack (RHIP after all.) In my first ship, my first rack was on the top tier and had a section of firemain eating up a lot of the space ... obviously not an attractive situation. When I was able I laid claim to the center rack right below mine and was a happy camper. 😉
I served on the USS Sphinx, ARL-24 during the mid-80's. Our racks were four in height and I had the luxury of the second bunk. Our EEOBs were incorporated into the top of our bunks. I have a photo somewhere that shows my toes touching the bottom of the EEOB container. Definitely a tight fit but nice to know our emergency air was close at hand. You learned to sleep on one side during your sleep shift as they racks were too close together to allow one to roll over. To accomplish that one had to shift off the bunk into the passageway, make your roll over and then slide back into the bunk. Oh, memories. Cheers!
On the Hermitage and Spiegel Grove - both '50s LSDs - the main passageway to get to all the Engineering berthing compartments, Repair 3, and the engine rooms (Machinery Spaces) ran through the berthing compartments. There was one head for all the Engineering department. For example, for someone in R division to go to the head, he had to go forward through A division, B division, and M division berthing before he got to the head. (This was on the Hermitage, the division berthings were arranged differently on the Spiegel Grove). E Division berthing was just aft of the trunk down to the forward engine room, so all the MMs and BTs going to and from watch went right through E division berthing.
I was USAF during the '80's. We had much better housing. I attended an all-service school, DLI Monterey. Air Force spaces had curtains and carpeting, while everyone else had venetian blinds and tile floors. One think I learned was that even in a elite school like DLI there was room for cheaters. and theives.......and they were all my roommates. One guy stole a carpet sweeper, the other stole the door of a jeep. I won't tell anyone how to cheat. We all ate army chow, since Presidio of Montery was considered to be part of Fort Ord. My father was drafted in 1940, did his basic training at Fort Ord. He and my mom visited me in early spring 1982. I was able to give him a tour around Fort Ord and the Presidio. He said Fort Ord parade gound and the buildings around it looked just like they had in 1940.
The large locker underneath the rack is referred to as a “coffin locker“. I have more than a decade of sea time in my 20 years of the baby and I slept on those the entire time. They hold a surprising amount of stuff in pack things right.
You would find fans though out most berthing spaces. It helps circulate the air and keep it from getting stale. Those foam mattresses are a big no no, big fire and smoke hazard, I would think even for a museum ship. You wouldn't necessarily have to wait for a good bunk to open to take it. If you were an E-6 coming aboard and some E4 had a bunk you wanted, then you could have the E4 move.
I was on CV-62 Independence in the early '90s, the bunks and lockers look pretty familiar. Middle bunk was the favorite because it was easy to get into, upper bunk next because it had head room, worst was the floor bunks.
Which never made sense. Although ST does have this problem with ratings/enlisted existing on ships. As the LD people are all officers. Bit of an odd place to stash even such low forms of life as ensigns.
@@YandarvalOn a bigger ship like an Excelsior or a Sovereign (very roughly, heavy cruiser and battleship respectively), everyone would have a stateroom. But Cerritos is a frigate, and not all that big or new as frigates go, so, stuck with open-bay berthings for JOs.
So their dress uniforms, the “crackerjacks,” those were just folded up and stowed under your bunk? No hanging space? I can see it being ok for work/duty clothes, but it had to have been a pain to maintain a dress uniform.
Compared to my living space in the Army in Viet Nam this would be paradise, compared to my quarters in the Air Force, not so nice. I really love your videos.
I serve in RN heads not attached ed on my ships but each mess deck had a small lounge area with undersea storage for bag etc. TV, gaming etc and 2 cans of beer a day. Laundry simlar
I always liked my curtain partially open, so I always had cool "fresh" Air the Uss Gray had the worst racks of any ship I was on, they were kind of like the racks here but were open all the way round and the bottom rack needed to be triced up.
Just noticed MY ERROR - the person in charge (LPO) you were describing is correct - changed when a new Leading Petty Officer (LPO) is assigned. Great video!
Very similar to the carriers I was on only we didn't have bunks. OS1 Lockart told me 1at day of boot camp, 75', that's a MFing rack! There was 1 of those tables in a 200-man compartment, I would go down after work to play Euchre. There was just 4 CPO's working NX and none were from where it is played.
Noticed one of the lockers had a padlock on it, is that something the museum did or is it something a past crew member left? If it's not a museum thing, do you eventually open it up and see what's inside?
I was in M-division(main engines) on an LSD in the late '70's. This berthing compartment seems roomy compared to where I slept. We had 3 bunks that, due to being so close to the overhead, required the sleeper to get out in order to turn over.
At 10:17, the emergency escape breathing system (I am reasonably sure) uses chemicals to create oxygen, just like the passenger air masks in airliners, not by an actual oxygen tank! That’s why there’s an actuator ring to pull which starts the combination of chemicals instead of a valve. So they don’t contain 15 minutes of oxygen but the ability to make that amount.
Wow...wish the rack I had was that long...barely 6' on the USS Bowen. No curtains either. Coffin rack on the Briscoe was better. A/C vent and curtains.
I would bet a large amount of money that there were many games of Dice, Dominoes and Poker in that back corner. "Come on Joe, steak me fifty will ya? I got a system!" "Yeah, a system for losing money- shove off!" :)
I remember visiting her sister ship USS Iowa, even 30 years after it's decommission it still smelled like people were still living there. It was like a concentration of the smell of Army Barracks, I bet it's due to lower air flow.
GM division isn’t for the gunner’s mates. The best I can determine it was the guided missile division, part of the weapons department. All the names on the racks were FCs, not GMs.
@@leftyo9589 get some air around those feet. 24/7 in boots is not fun. Flip flop wearing also added to the unique "ambiance" of deep berthing spaces with poor air flow.
Weird question….this is off the tour route and obviously there are tons of spaces that are not open. Do you keep lights on in all of those spaces? Just emergency lighting or turn it all off?
Backgammon?? 😂 Sailors played Acey-Deucey - same board, and similar movement, but the starting position is an empty board with no markers in play. Oh, and no doubling cube.
Much more space to have racks around the ship for the much smaller 80s crew. With 900 less crew that WWII, plenty of berthing space to go around. No need to sardine people as much as WWII.
The Cold War sailors no doubt were lucky compared to what the WW2 sailors had to sleep on. Imagine if the South Dakota classes were able to get away with smaller crews back in the the day than what they actually ended up with and had those bunk beds.
People getting elected. Everyone "but" the person who thought the idea up, instantly spotting X is a terrible idea in a room. You need to be a little more specific next time :)
if you have a coffin rack, you get a tall skinny locker to go with it. if you have a top rack, you get a tall skinny one, and one of the larger square ones. the tall skinny one is for hanging your dress uniforms in. making friends has nothing to do with what rack you get. they are all claimed by rank.
You're close, but it actually says "Ammo Trunk", like an elephant trunk. As stated above, it's a vertical hoist to raise (and/or lower) munitions to gun turrets.
Why is it always “in mothballs” plural and not “in mothball” singular? I think the later sounds better. But the best thing to say would be “when she was mothballed”. Just always say it in the past tense. Anyone willing to explain some grammar rule nuances, please reply and lay it on me.
i LOVE when you are treating the camera person like the viewer.. "come on through the door and lets turn around" Basically talking to the camera person like they were on a curators tour.
Same same, love it!
I guess there's a good chance that it's Libby I thought it would be funny if in a situation like that he would say, come on Soldier move it move it move it? I wonder if New Jersey has a dog house?😮😂😂😊
I've noticed that, too. I sure does make it like you're there and Ryan is giving you a personal tour. This is one of the many reasons I love these awesome videos.
On that small plaque by the door with the Compartment Cleaner that is labeled "as assigned" because it's changed weekly - I was LPO on the USS Richmond K Turner (CG-20) of Fox Division and standard policy was to rotate cleaning duties among the junior enlisted E-4 and below. No one in the Navy cleans a compartment (and head) for their entire tour!!!
Love touring these ships and spaces- but it also reaffirms that I made the right call joining the Air Force.
Air Force had the best food, bases, barracks, BUT I still loved my Navy time on the USS Independence 75-76
HOW could you play golf, in the navy? it just doesn't make sense!
Really appreciate the clear and stabilized video!
Marine berthing aboard LSTs and LPDs in the late 80's early 90's were pipe racks, stacked four high. The LHA I got to spend time on had flat racks (no storage), also four high.
I found the older, pipe racks to be more comfortable. The ones we had were canvas stretched and held tight to the pipe frame with ropes. They had a little give to them.
The metal flat racks had no give to them. The thin mattress pads weren't great. Worse, the EEBDs in the flat racks made it difficult to move around and get comfortable, even for average-sized guys.
That was luxury compared to what we had on the old USS DIXIE a destroyer tender - oldest ship in the Navy at the time (mid 70s). Canvas racks, 4 high. Thin mattress - very little storage - but, we did have AC in the berthing compartments. Our dept was lucky - we were stuck in a small pullman below the MAIN berthing area for supply division ... so it was quiet down there.
When I was on the USS Trenton, LPD-14, I had a bottom rack. It was on the outside and I installed a fan, 14" above the deck, pointing right at my rack. The XO did an inspection and asked about it. I was a hull tech, BTW. He was told who did that, and just went on with his inspection. Within 3 days, I had gotten over 50 requests, to have fans installed. LOL
I had a great rack on LUCE. My rack was a bottom rack up against the hull with a small area between the rack and the hull. I hear the water rushing by. Very comfy.
i actually remember sleeping over as a boy scout on this ship (if my memory serves me correct, it WAS the battleship new jersey). it was one of the coolest experiences of my childhood!
Much similarity to the few weeks I spent on a carrier. We were a Marine/Navy pilot training squadron and only hit the deck for a little at a time (myself being a Marine Airframe tech on F-18's). I've been on the Stennis and the Lincoln. Both were similar in layout for berthing. Half my time was with my unit and the other half spent lending a hand on the mess deck, where they worked my @$$ so long that I began to wish I was back in Marine Boot Camp so I could catch a bit of down time. The Petty Officer wasn't a jerk, he was just one of those E-5's who OWNED the space. I mean, I worked 15 hour days, but this guy worked so hard that his next two superiors in the chain of command probably had nothing else left to do themselves! Just seeing this guy go inspired me to no longer regard how long I spent at work.
I was initial manning on an Ohio class SSBN and we chose racks by rank. Those have 9 man (3x3) enlisted bunk rooms outboard of the missile tubes with racks similar to these. The bunkroom had a curtain between the tubes out to the main passage way to keep it dark as the lights were always off (except for field day). You got a privacy curtain, light, ventilation register, small foot locker (in your bunk down by your feet), a bed pan, a larger drawer off to the side, and a common large locker so everyone could hang uniforms or store other BS. The outboard guys sometimes got a little access cubby they could hide stuff on and those racks were well known/coveted. Heads were common to everyone (fore and aft). The goat locker and officer staterooms were up forward.
Senior guy was usually the middle rack....but not always. Top rack had a handle attached to the overhead to use to swing in. God help you if you step on someone's rack trying to get in.
The "messenger" would get you up for watch. If he was worth a crap, he would be quiet. Most of the time, the would fling open the curtain....that alone would wake you up. Losing ventilation would do it too......drill time.
You didn't have much room to roll over, you would adopt the "flip". I just about bounce my wife out of bed between patrols because it is hard to stop doing.
by "bed pan", do you mean a bed pan; like in a hospital?
@@brianbalster3521 No......an under bed ("rack") pan similar but not as deep to what was shown by Ryan. Plank Owner USS Alaska...the 7th Ohio Class boat.
Oh look at that fancy opening shot! Getting creative
The most popular area was the lounge with the TV and 4 chairs. Move your feet, lose your seat. Time to watch the same movies, and Solid Gold.
My bunk on the USS Sculpin, SSN 590, was just off the centerline on the port side. I had a middle bunk fwd of the battery well and to the port side of one of the periscopes and battery breaker. Zero traffic. Three of us, an E-4, an E-5 & me an E6 shared this space. On a Med Run we hung a blanket closing off the passage and opened a ventilation duct. It was about as private a space as an officers state room and about 5° cooler than the rest of berthing. The berthing space was dark at sea so no one of importance ever noticed. That was until one field day that the lights came on. Needless to say the COB was not pleased. Eventually I was moved to the berthing in the torpedoroom upper level, which was not as good as our little stateroom.
I was always shore based so things were a little more comfortable. For the last two years I even had my own room so it was the lap of luxury, though the head was down the hall. My dad, a submariner, says I was only sort-of in the Navy 🤣
The bunks are familiar from when I was on USS Nassau and USS Kennedy in the 80s (aside, we refueled the New Jersey from the Kennedy off Lebanon in 83) but we didn't have any flat racks, they were all the locker type. Middle bunk was the best, easier to get in than top and you didn't have to "trice up" in the morning.
That's why I tried to talk my granddaughter into joining the navy or air force because they at least almost always get hot meals and warm places to sleep even if it is in bunks. I think she is still looking at the marines though. Hope she enjoys sleeping in swamps. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely respect marines and thank god we have them. But, dang, they are hard core.
That brings back many memories. Very similar to what I had back on the USS Saratoga. Luckily our division had its own compartment. Made it nicer for sure. Those lockers under the bunks were called coffin lockers. We liked them better than the normal square lockers that those without the coffin lockers had.
I would never be interested in ancient battleships if it weren’t for you. Keep up the good work!
Usually, In my experience when a guy with a "good" rack departed, if there was a senior guy with a less desirable rack HE could and often would stake claim to the better rack (RHIP after all.) In my first ship, my first rack was on the top tier and had a section of firemain eating up a lot of the space ... obviously not an attractive situation. When I was able I laid claim to the center rack right below mine and was a happy camper. 😉
I always had two of those black soft wall blankets. And two pillows I love my rack.
I was on DD 508 and we had the pipe canvas bunks. Our head was up one deck.
You and the videos are always great!
I served on the USS Sphinx, ARL-24 during the mid-80's. Our racks were four in height and I had the luxury of the second bunk. Our EEOBs were incorporated into the top of our bunks. I have a photo somewhere that shows my toes touching the bottom of the EEOB container. Definitely a tight fit but nice to know our emergency air was close at hand. You learned to sleep on one side during your sleep shift as they racks were too close together to allow one to roll over. To accomplish that one had to shift off the bunk into the passageway, make your roll over and then slide back into the bunk. Oh, memories. Cheers!
On the Hermitage and Spiegel Grove - both '50s LSDs - the main passageway to get to all the Engineering berthing compartments, Repair 3, and the engine rooms (Machinery Spaces) ran through the berthing compartments. There was one head for all the Engineering department. For example, for someone in R division to go to the head, he had to go forward through A division, B division, and M division berthing before he got to the head. (This was on the Hermitage, the division berthings were arranged differently on the Spiegel Grove). E Division berthing was just aft of the trunk down to the forward engine room, so all the MMs and BTs going to and from watch went right through E division berthing.
All you need is the blue J/O curtains and the space will be complete.
Berthing on an Arleigh Burke isn't all that different.
On a Sirius-class supply ship, though, even seamen had staterooms!
Having flashbacks to Midway, Kitty Hawk & Nimitz. Midway was the best, though.
Racks with the bed that fold up are called coffin racks. The ones that do not are called flat racks.
That table/chair combo looks identical to what McDonald's had in their restaurants.
I was USAF during the '80's. We had much better housing. I attended an all-service school, DLI Monterey. Air Force spaces had curtains and carpeting, while everyone else had venetian blinds and tile floors. One think I learned was that even in a elite school like DLI there was room for cheaters. and theives.......and they were all my roommates. One guy stole a carpet sweeper, the other stole the door of a jeep. I won't tell anyone how to cheat.
We all ate army chow, since Presidio of Montery was considered to be part of Fort Ord. My father was drafted in 1940, did his basic training at Fort Ord. He and my mom visited me in early spring 1982. I was able to give him a tour around Fort Ord and the Presidio. He said Fort Ord parade gound and the buildings around it looked just like they had in 1940.
Yeah, but did your bunk rock you to sleep at night? 😂🤣
The large locker underneath the rack is referred to as a “coffin locker“. I have more than a decade of sea time in my 20 years of the baby and I slept on those the entire time. They hold a surprising amount of stuff in pack things right.
I spent the night aboard with my sons Cub scout pack, had to sleep on the top bunk to avoid claustrophobia. But a very fun time.
You would find fans though out most berthing spaces. It helps circulate the air and keep it from getting stale. Those foam mattresses are a big no no, big fire and smoke hazard, I would think even for a museum ship. You wouldn't necessarily have to wait for a good bunk to open to take it. If you were an E-6 coming aboard and some E4 had a bunk you wanted, then you could have the E4 move.
You got that so right .A Good bunk is premium.
It’s the berth of a new topic
I loved them my coffin rack, and first division it was so comfortable and dark
1ST div in 68, had the old racks. Went to PBR's after
More adult overnights please! The one and only was amazing.
I was on CV-62 Independence in the early '90s, the bunks and lockers look pretty familiar. Middle bunk was the favorite because it was easy to get into, upper bunk next because it had head room, worst was the floor bunks.
I use those tables to learn how to play AC/Duce in the early 1980s
Acey-Ducey.
6:19 rank hath it's privileges. We moved out of the berthing during a yard period and when we moved back in choice was in rank order
The bunks on the main passageway make me think of the sleeping arrangements on the Cerritos in Lower Decks.
Which never made sense. Although ST does have this problem with ratings/enlisted existing on ships. As the LD people are all officers. Bit of an odd place to stash even such low forms of life as ensigns.
Star Trek has always taken a lot of inspiration from the Navy.
@@YandarvalOn a bigger ship like an Excelsior or a Sovereign (very roughly, heavy cruiser and battleship respectively), everyone would have a stateroom.
But Cerritos is a frigate, and not all that big or new as frigates go, so, stuck with open-bay berthings for JOs.
I wish that we had that much luxury on those overnights aboard USS Alabama.
So their dress uniforms, the “crackerjacks,” those were just folded up and stowed under your bunk? No hanging space? I can see it being ok for work/duty clothes, but it had to have been a pain to maintain a dress uniform.
Dress uniforms went in the stand up locker, usually. They _can_ be folded, though, in boot camp we were taught how to fold them up.
Happy Friday
Compared to my living space in the Army in Viet Nam this would be paradise, compared to my quarters in the Air Force, not so nice.
I really love your videos.
Old home week for me. I was on an FFG from 84 to 88. Wish I was back there.
great vid!
On the San Antonio class LPDs we have L shaped racks so you can sit up in your rack and they have more storage space compared to the coffin racks
I serve in RN heads not attached ed on my ships but each mess deck had a small lounge area with undersea storage for bag etc. TV, gaming etc and 2 cans of beer a day. Laundry simlar
I always liked my curtain partially open, so I always had cool "fresh" Air the Uss Gray had the worst racks of any ship I was on, they were kind of like the racks here but were open all the way round and the bottom rack needed to be triced up.
Navy will be visiting and inspecting soon...
Comments are pretty accurate other than then they did not smell. But they were quiet and dark.
Just noticed MY ERROR - the person in charge (LPO) you were describing is correct - changed when a new Leading Petty Officer (LPO) is assigned. Great video!
Very similar to the carriers I was on only we didn't have bunks. OS1 Lockart told me 1at day of boot camp, 75', that's a MFing rack! There was 1 of those tables in a 200-man compartment, I would go down after work to play Euchre. There was just 4 CPO's working NX and none were from where it is played.
Noticed one of the lockers had a padlock on it, is that something the museum did or is it something a past crew member left? If it's not a museum thing, do you eventually open it up and see what's inside?
I have slep on the Barry with the Boy Scouts. We slept in the enlisted room, with a lot of 3 level bunk beds
That large air handler surely must be pretty loud. I'd think ear plugs are a standard accessory for sleeping aboard ships.
I was in M-division(main engines) on an LSD in the late '70's. This berthing compartment seems roomy compared to where I slept. We had 3 bunks that, due to being so close to the overhead, required the sleeper to get out in order to turn over.
New camera? Looks good!
I agree.. Not much room.especially the bunks (racks)
Have you all been in submarine berthing? I don't know if that is smaller.. It Seems to be.
So Wise , Thank You .
At 10:17, the emergency escape breathing system (I am reasonably sure) uses chemicals to create oxygen, just like the passenger air masks in airliners, not by an actual oxygen tank! That’s why there’s an actuator ring to pull which starts the combination of chemicals instead of a valve. So they don’t contain 15 minutes of oxygen but the ability to make that amount.
Most main lights had white and red bulbs for day and sleep schedule
Wow...wish the rack I had was that long...barely 6' on the USS Bowen. No curtains either. Coffin rack on the Briscoe was better. A/C vent and curtains.
I would bet a large amount of money that there were many games of Dice, Dominoes and Poker in that back corner. "Come on Joe, steak me fifty will ya? I got a system!" "Yeah, a system for losing money- shove off!" :)
Look pretty much like on the Chicago in the late 70's.
It all looks familiar .
I remember visiting her sister ship USS Iowa, even 30 years after it's decommission it still smelled like people were still living there. It was like a concentration of the smell of Army Barracks, I bet it's due to lower air flow.
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Spent 4 years living on DD-982 in a rack.
The hang up lockers are wider than the newer blue racks and hang up lockers for clothes storage
That exactly the same as the tables I used to build for the Washington State prison system
GM division isn’t for the gunner’s mates. The best I can determine it was the guided missile division, part of the weapons department. All the names on the racks were FCs, not GMs.
More than likely instead of backgammon, Acey-deucey would be played on that table.
First time commenting on the website so I might be repeating myself never had a problem with smell in my coughing rack
Youre a living history guy. How many times have you gotten the mark of shame Ryan?
Use independence cv62 was set up same way along with us Portland lsd37
How did one secure those storage bunks. So no one steels your stuff.
there's a hasp on the flap that you can put a lock on. nothing gets left unlocked on a ship.
Look at the drawer at 5:23. There's hardware for putting on a lock. It locks the drawer to the lid of the bed, so neither can be opened.
On AD-26 in the 1960's basically WW II configuration. Head 3 compartments bach
what footwear did sailors use when off duty and moving about in berthing compartment or going out to the head; barefoot or slippers or what?
flip flops.
@@leftyo9589 get some air around those feet. 24/7 in boots is not fun. Flip flop wearing also added to the unique "ambiance" of deep berthing spaces with poor air flow.
@@Yandarval and sounds of flip flops echoing off all the hard surfaces
If you have the kings seat above the armoured deck. Is that waste dispelled above armoured deck? In other case the poop would have to be armoured too
I mean, like you said. There is a step for it. A step. That tells me either poop comes out of side of the ship. Or the poop is armoured
Weird question….this is off the tour route and obviously there are tons of spaces that are not open. Do you keep lights on in all of those spaces? Just emergency lighting or turn it all off?
Likely very few and far between, emergency lights. Saves on bulbs, electricity and paint fading. if its not being regularly used by staff of course.
Not backgammon, but acey deucey.
Backgammon?? 😂 Sailors played Acey-Deucey - same board, and similar movement, but the starting position is an empty board with no markers in play. Oh, and no doubling cube.
There was plenty of room in my coffin rack...
Coffin racks, and stacked only three high? Squids lived in luxury on the New Jersey.
Much more space to have racks around the ship for the much smaller 80s crew. With 900 less crew that WWII, plenty of berthing space to go around. No need to sardine people as much as WWII.
I believe the navy tried to have at least one table per berthing space
Finally, "The "COFFIN" Rack story" & the smell of recycled air, & lower rack, sweaty foot/sock , man smell.
The Cold War sailors no doubt were lucky compared to what the WW2 sailors had to sleep on.
Imagine if the South Dakota classes were able to get away with smaller crews back in the the day than what they actually ended up with and had those bunk beds.
Bunks were always senior time on board first come gets the worst most senior gets the most desired rack
You ever hear things you can't explain?
I hear my neighbor cussing at squirrels. In the middle of the night. Cannot explain the guy.
People getting elected. Everyone "but" the person who thought the idea up, instantly spotting X is a terrible idea in a room. You need to be a little more specific next time :)
if you have a coffin rack, you get a tall skinny locker to go with it. if you have a top rack, you get a tall skinny one, and one of the larger square ones. the tall skinny one is for hanging your dress uniforms in. making friends has nothing to do with what rack you get. they are all claimed by rank.
I think modern subs use the same bunks
I did not smell bad in the coffin lockers in first division
One guy gets sick, all guys get sick.
My ex got pregnant while on deployment... must be why it's called "birthing." 🤣
DON'T PICK UP THAT SOCK!!!
What's the "Ammo Truck" Shoot looking thing you were standing next to? Thank you again for your videos!
Ammo hoist from the magazines to the 5in guns.
You're close, but it actually says "Ammo Trunk", like an elephant trunk. As stated above, it's a vertical hoist to raise (and/or lower) munitions to gun turrets.
Why is it always “in mothballs” plural and not “in mothball” singular? I think the later sounds better. But the best thing to say would be “when she was mothballed”. Just always say it in the past tense. Anyone willing to explain some grammar rule nuances, please reply and lay it on me.
A mothball would be about half a inch. A little puff of material. With Cedar. One individual mothball would not do that ship space.