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vagriller: My last reply was originally intended to supersede my previous reply, but my responses have proven a bit dilatory due to the excessive heat and humidity causing me massive computer problems. The latter reply offers a larger photo of the rice cookers aboard a Yamato-class BB together...

vagriller: I'm in Rhode Island . The ship I'm working on is a 165' civilian auxiliary vessel, essentially a supply/repair ship with a sizable hospital suite. Thanks for the photos: the photo of the galley definitely sparked memories of the galley spaces aboard Fletcher, Allen M. Sumner...

vagriller: I am in Rhode Island, and I'm designing a 165' civilian auxiliary ship that amounts to a supply/repair ship with a significant hospital suite. Thanks for sending me the photos of the mess decks aboard your DD, and, I must say, the equipment visible in the photo of the galley brings...

vagriller: I recently consulted the construction plans of a Fletcher-class dstroyer, and have discovered that, at best (and this is an exaggeration, as I know that the Fletcher-class galley didn't include the entire breadth of the main deck midships deckhouse), contained six times the space of...

Sparrowgrass: Thanks for the tip. I should have thought of it myself, as I once lived in one of those Manhattant tenements with the bathtub in the kitchen, and we used to cover the tubs (when not in use) with removable countertops. Anyways, remembering that a ship's galley contains only food...

Hi, everybody: I'm an enthusiastic cook, but also a naval architect, who currently has a desperate need to fit a 5 foot by 7 1/2 foot galley into a ship intended to feed a personnel complement of 30. I've found space, so far, to include one stovetop/oven range (sufficient to bake 6 loaves of...