by Darryl » August 31, 2017, 12:27 pm
That's it, Captain Metz! The one on the Steinbrenner boat had a stairway up from the fantail. The Ford must have had passage from ahead of the doghouse. The Paul L. Teitjen's doghouse had a total of 12 berths! At the time I was on it, three firemen share one room, 4 deckhands another (when they could get four deckhands) and then the room I was in must have originally been for three coal-passers. I was the lone wiper in there. Manning requirements might have change much, much earlier when stokers were put in the boiler-room.
That's it, Captain Metz! The one on the Steinbrenner boat had a stairway up from the fantail. The Ford must have had passage from ahead of the doghouse. The Paul L. Teitjen's doghouse had a total of 12 berths! At the time I was on it, three firemen share one room, 4 deckhands another (when they could get four deckhands) and then the room I was in must have originally been for three coal-passers. I was the lone wiper in there. Manning requirements might have change much, much earlier when stokers were put in the boiler-room.