Tour - Crew Bunks
Summary
13 crew · Two-tier racks · Shared lockers · Non-Gender Showers · No privacy
Additional Information
| Description | CREW BUNKS — COMPARTMENT DETAIL A single open bunkroom. Six double-stack units are arranged in two rows of three along the port and starboard bulkheads, running fore to aft. At the aft end, set apart from the double stacks by a narrow gap, a single bunk against the aft bulkhead. Shared lockers along the forward bulkhead. The head through a hatch in the port forward corner. THE DOUBLES — 6× TWO-TIER RACKS Standard two-tier racks. Each bunk has a small personal locker recessed into the bulkhead beside it — a reader, personal effects, anything needed within arm's reach. Curtain tracks run above each bunk. The curtains are optional, self-sourced, and nearly universal. Privacy is fabric and convention. The crew does not discuss this arrangement. They observe it precisely. THE SINGLE — AFT BULKHEAD Same dimensions, same personal locker beside it. What makes it different is the absence of a bunkmate overhead. The senior-most non-command crew member holds it by informal right — typically the chief engineer or the security chief, depending on seniority. The question of which one holds it when both are equally ranked has never come up. It will. SHARED LOCKERS — FORWARD BULKHEAD A bank of full-height shared storage lockers for gear, uniforms, and equipment that doesn't fit in a personal bunk locker. Assigned by name, not rank. The allocation is managed by whoever has been aboard longest — the closest thing to a formal system the bunkroom has. HEAD — PORT FORWARD HATCH GENDER NEUTRAL Two shower stalls, two toilet cubicles, two sinks. No separation by gender — the Ada Lovelace has never had separate facilities, and the crew has never requested them. PEAK HOURS SCHEDULE Posted on the bunkroom bulkhead beside the hatch. Handwritten. Updated many times. The original author is no longer aboard. The schedule remains. |