RE: Personal hygiene aboard ship...
Posted by:
Antonio Veiga
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Date: March 11, 2001 11:06PM
<HTML>Hi Les
No only in the movies.Due several reasons also in real life the hygiene of U-boat crewmen was not the first of their priorities.
You have to bear in mind that inside a very cramped space like was the pressure hull of the type VII U-Boat (The main German battlehorse of the Battle of Atlantic was a very small boat with approx. only 700 tons of displacement) almost 50 crewmen had to live and work for weeks, together with the equipment, tools, spares, piping, valves, gauges, engines, tanks, torpedoes,ammunition, food, etc.etc.
They were no lax in their hygiene they couldn´t have hygiene.
In a U-Boat there no was showers of bathtubs.Excepting captain, each one of the crewmembers had to sleep almost dressed (and sometimes wet) in a bed (lets call it bed) that was shared with other crewmember while this other one was on duty (hot beds).
The humidity and mould invaded everything.
In this conditions you can imagine was impossible people look net and clean.
In the photo U-35 crewmembers remove mould off their bread, as you can also see in Das Boot
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Best regards
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No only in the movies.Due several reasons also in real life the hygiene of U-boat crewmen was not the first of their priorities.
You have to bear in mind that inside a very cramped space like was the pressure hull of the type VII U-Boat (The main German battlehorse of the Battle of Atlantic was a very small boat with approx. only 700 tons of displacement) almost 50 crewmen had to live and work for weeks, together with the equipment, tools, spares, piping, valves, gauges, engines, tanks, torpedoes,ammunition, food, etc.etc.
They were no lax in their hygiene they couldn´t have hygiene.
In a U-Boat there no was showers of bathtubs.Excepting captain, each one of the crewmembers had to sleep almost dressed (and sometimes wet) in a bed (lets call it bed) that was shared with other crewmember while this other one was on duty (hot beds).
The humidity and mould invaded everything.
In this conditions you can imagine was impossible people look net and clean.
In the photo U-35 crewmembers remove mould off their bread, as you can also see in Das Boot
<img src=\"[www.geocities.com]\">
Best regards
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