Hello Everybody. !!.15pm NZ time

[Ivan Cloherty]

1 sheet and 1 pillowcase changed every Saturday, ready for Old Man's Sunday inspection. Counterpanes collected from 2nd Steward when joining and returned prior paying-off. However on our 22 month voyage they where changed about 6 times. On transiting Panama Canal, all carpets from rooms and alleyways (normally coir) all taken out on deck and hosed down in Gatun Lake (FW), on other occasions hosed down with Salt water and rinsed with a bucket of FW, seemed to be the normal procedure on ships I sailed .

[Roger Millard]

Thanks Ivan. Roger.

[happy daze john in oz]

On the liners the luxury of a peak steward to take care of it all, but we would bung him a quid at the end of the voyage.

On NZSC one of the stewards had the pleasure of issuing fresh bedding weekly then doing the dhobi, never knew who ironed them as they all came back looking good.
Same on BP tanker I was on, but not sure about others.

[Keith Tindell]

As far as i can recall, fresh sheet and pillow case every week, and counterpane every 8 weeks or so on long voyages. Porthole curtains and bunk curtains never that i remember, kt

[Paul Johnson]

Hi All,
As far as I remember of the 2nd Stewards I sailed with would never be doing dhobying of bed linen. On the NZSCo ships the linen was laundered ashore, I remember the bags of linen being carried ashore and the clean linen coming back on board.
The only ship I sailed on, besides the 'Rangitoto' and the 'Arawa', who carried a Laundryman was the 'Brazil Star', one of the BA Flyers.
Cheers, Paul.