For Rosie - L shaped beds

[Michael Gallagher]

Rosie

You mentioned in a post about L shaped beds - do you mean like the attached? I liked staying in these cabins.

Michael

This is cabin 4196

[Michael Gallagher]

And Cabin 4198

[Michael Gallagher]

Here is an L shaped bed cabin in 1969:

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Fascinating! I had never come across one of these .

My mother loved her very first, Caronia, single cabin, in which the bed was also placed under the porthole, occupying the entire width of the cabin, with the bathroom at the other end. I suppose the bathtub must also have occupied close to the entire width of the cabin!

[Michael Gallagher]

Cabin 4200 had L shaped beds

[Michael Gallagher]

As was cabin 4205

[Michael Gallagher]

And 4207

[Trevor Harris]

That's cool how the built in dresser lasted so long..

[Brandon Sterkel]

Wow, I had no idea these L shape bed cabins actually existed!

Learn something new everyday!

[Boris]

I wasn't aware of 'L-shaped' bunks for pax either.

It used to be a requirement of the Officers' Association agreement, that all officers' cabins on British vessels had two bunks; and the 'day bunk' was always at right angles to the main bunk. The simple reasoning was that during heavy weather if you were getting thrown out of your bunk every time the ship rolled, you moved across to your day bunk. (I am hazarding a guess the two bunks requirement was stipulated in the MNAOA agreement as I don't think it was actually specified in the BoT regulations).

I sailed on a Japanese built cargie boat once which dodn't have this configuration and a compromise agreement was reached whereby we each had a large, solidly built, leather, padded arm chair. Not quite the same for a good sleep after you came off watch: but better than continuously picking yourself off the deck as you got jettisoned from your pit by the rolling of the ship.

[Twynkle]

Rosie

You mentioned in a post about L shaped beds - do you mean like the attached? I liked staying in these cabins.

Michael

This is cabin 4196

Michael,

You are a Star!
Thank you so very much for all of these - 'specially Cabin 4205!
It was an absolute gem
C3 - for interest, this was the best 14 nights including a North Sea crossing for £1300
It may even have been the cabin we had with a bath tub - and Bronnley Lemon soap!
Now, just praying hard that the L-Shaped cabins will have been preserved - and guess you will be hoping for the same too.

Otherwise, the bath was inside where we stayed in cabin 5087 (2008) - this was the cabin close to something that went with a Bang at about 0300hrs - sadly I've never discovered where / what was the cause... guess it was a shell door /hatch, possibly very close to A Stairway, and almost certainly in crew country!

We are just so grateful, a thousand thanks and more!
Rosie

PS - One of my biggest regrets - still, was not making use of the Bath - to have been in a QE2 tub in an F9 could have been not quite as good as a hammock maybe, however it should have been experienced...

[Chris Thompson]

The Cunard Princess and Countess had a similar cabin layout, beds at 90 degrees to eachother that would convert to sofas. Honeymooners on a budget were always asking how they could be moved together??
Answer - just chuck the mattresses on the floor!!!!