Wardroom

As an exhibition, a space on board a ship are referred to in the German merchant ships as well as in the German Navy, in which the food is taken and leisure can be spent. It is thus a mixture of dining room and living room. In addition, this training or meetings are occasionally held.

History

General

The ship's crew is traditionally divided into soldiers and officers. Until the 1970s, three to four different fairs were provided on larger ships. In addition to the crew's mess, there was the officers' mess, and the salon. Depending on the shipping company tradition, there were large ships occasionally also a separate exhibition in which the boatswain, the storekeeper, the carpenters and to the tankers and the pump man taking their food. In the crew's mess, the enlisted men ate of the ship's boys, sailors, cleaners and greasers. This simplest exhibition could be in contrast to the other shows partly also enter with work clothes. The tablecloths and clearing, called Back to class, was done on larger vessels from the steward, to smaller units in turn by the steward.

In the wardroom ate the officers, with the engineers, the engineering wizard, the radio operator and the electricians to the officers. In the salon ate the ship's officers, the captain, the Chief Engineer (Chief ) and the first officer. In addition, the passengers were riding as passengers on merchant ships often. To operate in the salon and the fairs were two to four stewards and fair boy, the people served at meals in the fairs and salon, setting the table and the washed up and were also responsible for the service of the chamber higher ranks.

Development on merchant ships

While working and team fairs are usually simpler to officers' messes and in particular the salon regularly distinguished by their respective upscale amenities.

Until the above period 40 to 50 crew members were on the large commercial vessels patterned, because the majority of the training took place on board the ship operation with derricks and cargo was very labor intensive and marine power plants were still operated manually. That has largely changed, pallets and containers have streamlined the cargo journey, whereby the cargo handling optimized and the harbor waiting times have been reduced from several days to several hours. Instead each 12 to 20 crew members for operating the machine and the work on deck modern automated large ocean-going vessels have only a total of 20 to 25 people as occupation. The occupations such as ship's boys, sailors, cleaners and greasers have disappeared in the German shipping, instead working ship mechanic and ship operations master depending on the demand both on deck and in the engine.

This development had an impact on the life and living culture on board. Depending on the shipping company, the fairs have changed, have often changed in integrated measurement with separate areas for officers and enlisted.

Special features on Navy ships

In the German Navy still exist, the officers' mess ( without joints -S ) for all officers. On larger ships, some navies of the commander is not a member of the Fair and stays there by invitation only. Furthermore, there are also separate fairs for Portepeeunteroffiziere, ( PUO - Fair), NCOs (U - Mass) as well as for the teams (M- Mass), with the smaller fairs are no fairs in terms of service provision, and cafeterias. In the officers' mess and the PUO fairs Team soldiers are mostly used as a pantry. In all the fairs, there is a so-called fair elders who watches over the order in the fair.

The naval officer clubs in German cities as the Marine Officers Association call themselves partly as a naval officer's mess as well as the companies on board itself.