![]() Junior officers live in two-man dorms while more senior officers have cabins to themselves. Now junior ratings share cabins intended to house no more than six. Gone too are mass dorms that housed scores of sailors. ![]() The ratio of sailor to showers has plunged from 50:1 on the Type 42 to 12:1. Heads (the naval term for toilets) and showers are now individual cubicles, not communal. ![]() “Junior sailors are in accommodation that I could only have dreamed of as an officer in most of my time in the Navy,” says Admiral Sir Alan West, First Sea Lord from 2002 to 2006.ĭaring has about 20 Wrens and is the Navy’s first vessel to provide “gender neutral” living spaces, meaning male and female quarters can be interchanged as required. Claims of iPod connectivity may have been greeted by well-meaning smirks but the cramped quarters that marked most British warships are now a thing of the past. Inside, her design has revolutionised life in the Navy.
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