The Junior Officers' Wardroom
Aboard the Cruiser OLYMPIA
By Patrick McSherry
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The OLYMPIA's
Junior Officers' Wardroom is flanked by the officers' country
companionways on either side. The wardroom itself is centered over the
vessel’s keel. This wardroom is much smaller than that of the
senior officers’ wardroom, since the number of officers who used this
area were a lesser number (only those below the rank of lieutenant), and
off lesser stature in the crew hierarchy. This would have basically been
the "living room" and "dining room" for the junior officers. Here they
visited, ate, and spent their free time. The group who used this space
were diminutively called the "steerage mess."Again, the space is
finished in varnished chestnut. Whereas the Senior Officers' Wardroom
had a skylight, the only natural light into the Junior Officers' Wardoom
comes in via the portholes that open out into the hot and noisy engine
hatch.
Proceed to the Engine Room
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