Op Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:18:32 +0100, Alex Potter
Yep that's one of the engine rooms - but why the surprise? Most
stokers, world wide, spend inordinate amounts of time with scrubbing
brushes, polishing rags and paint to keep their engine rooms looking
really tiddley. Quite often machinery is even given names and
carefully inscribed brass plates affixed to show those names. Pride,
it's called! In one boiler room of my acquaintance even the
reciprocal FFO feed pumps had names - the most tempremental of the lot
being "Gladys". There was also a "Spooky" and a "Suzie Q". I never
saw the same sort of thing in the merchant marine such as I saw in
navies. Probably the engineers there were more distanced from the
equipment - it was merely a job.
Eugene L Griessel
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to
believe, but in proportion to their willingness to doubt.