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FEEDING THE CREW
From provision storage to the table ready to eat, feeding the crew was a massive undertaking.  The task was even daunting in later years for the number of personnel increased by several hundred from 1914 but little increase in cooking capacity.  After the cooking is the cleaning.
 
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  Main Deck  
  Enlisted area here  
   
 
  2nd Deck  
  Enlisted eating areas all through out the deck  
 
  Half Deck  
 
   
  3rd Deck  
Enlisted eating areas (ex D-109) throughout the deck
Refrigeration could hold 30 tons of meat. 
 
  Hold  
  Provision compartments:   . 
*** 1910:  7 thru 14
*** 1931:  1 thru 6, 8 thru 11
*** 1937:  1 thru 5, 8 thru 12, 14
*** 1944:  1 thru 4, 9 thru 14 
   
 
 
 

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Started 11 May 1999 Chuck Moore, FTV (1st Texas Volunteers) BB35 volunteer group