Cutty Sark heads

Big Jake wrote:

Sub, Did your ship even have a Phamtom Sh*tter? If we would have caught the one who blessd us every once in a while, we would have threw him overboard.  BTW if you don't know what one is, feel blessed.

Yep, we had him (them) and he still lives on just about every boat I've ever been on. And I've been on a lot of ships. It's hard to believe that there are that many human swine in the world. But it is kind of funny if you think about it, you never knew who it was.

We had a booger eating Lieutenant, too. He thought he was slick and nobody knew, but everybody knew! Yeccchhh!

Sub,

Did your ship even have a Phamtom Sh*tter? If we would have caught the one who blessd us every once in a while, we would have threw him overboard. 

BTW if you don't know what one is, feel blessed.

The USS Lexington still had the running water trough commodes in some of the heads when I was stationed on her. They basically consisted of a long board with holes (about eight to a trough) cut out for you to sit on, partitions between each hole and a long trough with water running down from on end to the other.

A favorite prank was to wad up a big pile of toilet paper at the upstream side of the trough, light it, and send it down to the other end. It was especially effective if all of the holes were occupied!

Those heads were beautiful at least you were OUT of the weather unlike the poor chaps on most ships of the line in the age of sail.  WWI  & WWII subs were a real tight areas also, not to mention IF YOU SCREWED UP THE FLUSH VALVING!  THe Germans acutallu hung food in the heads at least atthe beginning of each cruise to use the extra space.  Must have made the cheese smell good.  Hell no one probally ever figured it out. 

It must have fun to use these heads in heavy seas! At least you wouldn't need to use toilet paper.

The roof is curved but it was open on the rail side below the roof. I filled it in in with styrene and now they look right.

 

Thanks

Bill

I don't have the kit, but it sounds like Academy must have made an error. 

The door is in indeed in the "front" (i.e., the side facing the ship's centerline).  The roof of the head is supposed to be curved downward on the "back," so it meets the ship's rail.  There isn't supposed to be any space between the roof and the rail.

Sounds like Academy may have made the roofs flat on top.  That's wrong; the curvature is clearly shown on the George Campbell plans, as well as on numerous photos of the ship - and the big Revell kit.  (I don't know about any of the others.)

Shouldn't be too hard to fix, with some styrene sheet or something similar.

Hope that helps.  Good luck.