U.S.S. YANCEY AKA-93

Ken Grooms's Navy A story for the USS Yancey

The Ship's Laundry Facilities

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Recently I was surfing the web and came across this item. Several ex-sailors were polled about the type of laundry facilities they had on their ships. They fell into the following categories:

1) Dirty laundry is thrown in a community bin, the ship servicemen pick it up, it comes back and people on duty sort it and put it on each individual's bunk. The Yancey was similar to this, but we sorted our own as I remember it. My second ship, a carrier, followed the above method.

2) Restricted washing: Clothes washed in salt water and rinsed with fresh water.

3) Washing with salt water only, folded wrong side out causing the clothes to stick.

4) All clothes thrown in a big net, tied to a line and thrown over the side and towed for
a given time. In event the line breaks, you wear shorts for 3 days and then turn the shorts wrong side out for another 3 days.

Didn't say what you did on the 7th day - maybe stayed in your bunk.

Ken Groom - Yancey Historian

Submitted 2/10/07
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