Laundry on Uboots?

[spindoctor]

Totally mundane question, but I was thinking about this. How did uboot crews do laundry while at sea. Or did they?

[IanE]

Based on my own experience of serving on an Oberon Class submarine I would say if they did any laundry then it was either hand washed or washed in a bucket. Remember fresh water was at a premium on uboats.

[Jan7]

About laundry on U-Boote -lavandería in spanish language-:

https://www.u-historia.com/uhistoria/te ... atripu.htm

...En los submarinos de la clase XXI, al igual que en los anteriores sumergibles, no existía un compartimiento específico destinado a ser usado como lavandería, teniendo que ser la ropa sucia lavada a mano y secada encima de los motores térmicos (sistema conocido como “la lavandería china”). Como último recurso quedaba acumular la ropa sucia para ser evacuada, una vez llegado a puerto, para su limpieza......

http://www.uboatarchive.net/LeuthLecture.htm

.....But there are also other minor details which you have to remember. If you have neither indelible ink nor name tags, and therefore the laundry which is hung up to dry in the electric motor compartment is not marked, it gets lost occasionally and unnecessary annoyance is caused. ....

[spindoctor]

That reading is extraordinary!