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Panther44
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Posted: 16 April 2007 at 22:44 \| IP Logged

How were the meals served, would one man from each compartment go to the galley and get food for everyone? Or was there another way?

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Posted: 17 April 2007 at 01:30 \| IP Logged

I think that depended on the boat and the crew. In a lot of cases, I'm fairly certain that the crew rest areas would have been used as an impromptu mess/galley, and men on watch would have eaten at their stations, where applicable. I suspect the abovedecks-watch would have cycled belowdecks to eat, then possibly go back up or shift, assuming that meals were served at the break between watches cycling on/off.

Pretty sure a lot of it was at the Kaleun's discretion or whatever worked best for a particular crew.

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Posted: 17 April 2007 at 22:22 \| IP Logged

What I'm asking is how was the food passed around? I don't think every man would walk to the galley to fill a plate. I was thinking maybe one guy from each compartment would get a tureen of food and bring it back to there respective compartment, or maybe someone's duty for the day was 'food distribution' throughout the boat.

Edited by Panther44 on 18 April 2007 at 00:27

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Posted: 18 April 2007 at 01:41 \| IP Logged

I suspect it was some combination of the two - if the galleyman (chef) wasn't passing the food around himself, one of the galley-hands would have been carrying tureens forward and aft from the galley itself, then.

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Posted: 30 April 2007 at 14:08 \| IP Logged

Very good Question!

I beleive it was what ever worked best. I beleive on U-805 each compartment send a man to the galley area to pick up the food in a container for this purpose.

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