Shipyard periods are a terrible time to be assigned to a ship. All that noise and dirt and long hours. No fun. Ships and sailors belong at sea.
“Shipyard periods are a terrible time to be assigned to a ship. All that noise and dirt and long hours. No fun. Ships and sailors belong at sea.”
Also, the lowest bidder usually did the yard work, and they cut the corners/eliminated a lot of things that made it easier to live on a ship.