On 1 Apr 2018 at 22:53, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:

> On 4/1/2018 9:36 PM, James Davies wrote:
>     Great pic, thanks for sharing!
>
>     Modern warships devote space to galleys, kitchens, food storage
>     etc. the crew don't eat MREs or frozen dinners routinely. When
>     you're away from home for months at a time poor food is one of
>     those things that can break you.
>
> Modern warships have the space to do this.  Traveller ships do not. 
> For the mess hall you will need about .5dton+ per person seated and
> probably about about 1dton per 10 people served at a time. 
> Minimum.  And that doesn't count the stores.  You just can't pull
> that amount of volume out of the stateroom allowance and still have a
> viable ship with passages, staterooms, or any sort of privacy.

There's likely your problem. Crew don't get staterooms. They get
bunks. And not a lot of privacy. Officers get shared "staterooms" 2-4
per room.

The Captain and the exec get individual staterooms (and possibly some
additional space) because they need it for private meetings and the
like.

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