Battleship Sized Laundry

37 pensamientos sobre “Battleship Sized Laundry”

1. I like the current Navy duty uniform; matching dark blue pants and button down shirts.

2. How does the ship supply power to keep the lights on if the engines aren't running?

3. Dungarees were during my time, they were ok

4. Looks just like the Iowa I was aboard in LA Harbor last year.

5. Ryan, outstanding work you do. any chance you can give us a vidya on all the parts of the AFFF firefighting system and how it works? hose stations, etc? thanks!

6. The Royal Navy have used Chinese laundrymen aboard for a century or more. They have stopped because of the fear of spying and they are now employing Nepalese ex-Ghurkas instead.

7. USS Boulder 1975 – 1978 We were REQUIRED to keep civilian clothing on board and wear only that off base.

8. On every ship I served, the Compartment cleaners had to deliver the division laundry to the Laundry on their designated day. Upon the laundry finishing the division laundry, they again had to pickup the laundry and distribute to the division putting it on the individuals rack. It never changed in my 26 years in the Navy. From Small boys to Carriers.

9. During deployments as a member of A-gang we did maintenance on the washer n dryers, then test them by washing our civilian clothes..lol. .back home pierside we just went to the NEX laundrymats on base…

10. On all 5 of my ships the SH's didn't come get your laundry, you hauled it down there yourself if you had berthing and head cleaning duty that day.

11. Prior to the awful looking cammo patterned two piece abominations introduced around 2009 Aussie sailors wore grey coveralls. You were also issued two or three big-arsed safety pins (about 4” long and an inch wide) and you would pin that day’s underwear, socks and T-shirt to your coveralls before throwing the lot into a big sack marked with your mess number. Each mess would take their laundry down in the morning and collect it later on that day, the laundry hand only roughly folded the items. Each mess also had a nominated day that they could take down bedding and civvy clothing.

    The first thing the laundry hand would do is grab each pair of coveralls by the ankles and give everything a good shake to see if anything fell out. Coins, zippos and pocket knives were regular “laundry lollies” that could be found! At sea every sailor had to carry a black grease pencil and a green “Cyalume” in special pockets on their upper left arm; if a grease pencil went through the drier it would melt and cover every every set of coveralls in that wash with greasy black marks. So, if your coveralls were found with a grease pencil still in the pocket the laundry hand would tie that sleeve into the tightest overhand knot he could manage. Repeat offenders would have both sleeves and maybe even the legs knotted as well; but if they still declined to learn then the laundry hand would wait until the overalls had been washed before knotting them and throwing them into the drier. That way the knots were incredibly tight!

12. As a sailor that actually wore dungarees, coveralls, flight-deck uniform, utilities, DCU, CUU, NWU type I, NWU type III went AF then ABU and OCP uniforms my favorite was the dungarees, DCU, type III and OCP

13. I hated dungarees

14. Was TAD to the laundry on the Indy 1983

15. The heated steam roller machine was to press the officers sheets

16. Were undergarments consider personal items or military issue and how was it handled? Interesting article btw

17. How did they clean the BTs oilers and machinist mates clothes with all the grease and oil? Were they allocated more uniforms?

18. Dress Blues don't go in ship's laundry. They will come back clean, but they will be extra small.

19. I thought they just sent them over to the USS Walter Mondale.

20. I was in the Navy from 75-81, I was on a destroyer for 4 years and the laundry was never folded it came back wrinkled.

21. Good subject , ? need more minutiae , deffo worthy of more than 7 mins . ?

22. I was on the Ranger and then the America during Vietnam. I was in an aircraft squadron . we put our laundry in net bags with giant clothespins to hold the bag shut. each person would have their cloths returned to him, laundry was done in salt water as I remember. One could take one's cloths to the laundromat in port if they desired. this was over 50 years ago so i might have some facts wrong.

23. I line the bell bottoms. Wore bell bottoms in High School in the 1970’s

24. In 77 we were allowed to have civies on board 7:35 USS Elliot did 967 have photo to back it up

25. Interesting topic. Thank you for uploading.

26. I was a dungaree sailor. When I joined in 1976 they were issuing “utilities” in boot camp. As soon as I graduated I bought dungarees, I much preferred those. I do not care for the working uniforms today. I also preferred cracker jacks and dixie cups. BTW, the video did not talk about chiefs and officers laundry?

27. I liked the pullover Utility tops. Coveralls were my favorite, but they weren't really authorized back then. We had a few heavy green coveralls, those were the best except for the heat. Sleeves would mysteriously disappear from them almost immediately. We weren't supposed to wear them outside the Hole. Actually, as Electricians, we weren't supposed to have them at all, but some of us did. Being on what was, at the time, quite probably the least military ship in the Navy, we did quite a few things that weren't "authorized".

    As to the laundry, wow, battleship duty must have been something really different – the laundry guys picked up the laundry, and brought it back to you folded and sorted??????? Pressed???? Man, I think that must be the officer's laundry you showed us. Two washers and four dryers would in no way be sufficient for 2000 men. We had two washers and two big 100lb dryers for a 300 man crew, and that was oversized because we carried 300 Marines on deployment.

28. Had to be careful, ensign Pulver kept his firecracker material there and sometimes they go boom!

29. Did the ship make it's own fresh water? Can you show that? I do not see any videos on fresh water.

30. Dungarees and chambery shirts

31. Thank you. I worked in dry-cleaning and laundry for several years. The owner had been a Navy Aviator who (his words), "unfortunately missed the war by 3 months." He was a stickler for making sure that every dress shirt was ink-stamped with the owner's name, and that no other item leave the front counter without a tag attached to it. He owned the most profitable shop in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon. While he didn't do any laundry personally during his service, his father had during WW1.

    I ran steam presses at the business, and can't imagine how hot it must have been in that under-deck space. We had the luxury of open windows, 10 foot ceilings, and a swamp cooler, and it still got to well over 110 degrees Fahrenheit inside the building even in the Winter.

32. My experience with laundry was we had to take the bags ourselves (berthing cleaners) for E6 and below and pick them up and pass them out on the racks. E7 and officers was delivered by berthing cleaners and was pressed. We called that flatiron press the mangler

33. You did not show the button crusher machine !

34. There were some nice ladies in town that allowed us sailors to keep some civies at their establishment, when uniforms were required to enter or exit a navy base.

35. Would be interested if they still route steam to laundry on the new Nuclear Carriers without steam launchers or if they use local electric boilers for that

36. How many uniforms did an enlisted man have, an officer?

37. Dungrees was my favorite on board ship
    While on 4 different ships, each division had to send an e3 or below for 90 days and laundry never folded just put clean back in laundry bags

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