Post #488684 by Wayfarer on Sat, Oct 17, 2009 6:07 AM

On 2009-10-11 22:05, savoy6 wrote:

Looks like these guys knew how to party

yeah..us sailors always do....lol..

now this is a REAL wog day...lol...not like the barely anything,PC crap that passes for crossing the line now-a-days....

Personally though I'd have hated to be on that cruise.

the length of it not withstanding....all that time in the tropics in poorly ventilated vessels of the period...would have really been hell on the stokers,water tenders and snipes down in engineering.at least most of us BM's would have spent much of the day topside...not to mention that you only got a seawater shower once a week...

That and the length was what I had in mind. So you're a BM, I was a DM before the merger and am currently an MC. Fun job all around.

I recommend reading The Last Gentleman of War: Raider Exploits of the Cruiser Emden as there was quite a bit about the living conditions onboard for their last cruise in the summer/fall of 1914 in the south Pacific and Indian Ocean. The book chronicles a very interesting cruise and trek back to Germany.

[ Edited by: Wayfarer 2009-10-17 06:08 ]