Iowa had a bathtub/shower installed specifically for FDR when she took him to Cairo and the Tehran conferences, except they forgot that FDR couldn't really use it with his polio condition
Iowa had a bathtub/shower installed specifically for FDR when she took him to Cairo and the Tehran conferences, except they forgot that FDR couldn't really use it with his polio condition
They added the bathtub because of the polio condition.
He couldn't use the standard Navy showers that were on all the other battleships.
So Iowa comes with her own personal bath/dock (self repair kit?)
most US ships had it pretty good compared to the IJN, because other than the Yamato class, accommodations on IJN ships were awful.
Ashigara's "hungry wolf" nickname wasn't a compliment, it was a comment made by Royal Navy officers on her crew, likening them to hungry wolves because her food was awful.
The Fuso class didn't have showers, crew-members were handed buckets and bathed on the deck.
The benefit is that you save a lot of weight by not having to add more crew comforts, but you get unhappy and possibly uncomfortable and distracted crewmembers when they are trying to do their job. Contemporary USN and RN ships were expected to stay at sea a lot longer, which is why they devoted more weight to creature comforts. The Yamato having more might be an indication the IJN was planning for more power projection and at-sea time.
IIRC, Ashigara's nickname is for the hull design that is smaller and thinner than the long range ships operated by USN and RN. IJN doesn't need to project their force far away back then, unlike RN that have to reach places like India or Singapore, so their ship design is different. It's either by RN officers or press who attended the naval review.
So Iowa comes with her own personal bath/dock (self repair kit?)
I think Iowa's bathtub is for show, unless she can magically make it big enough to fit her when she needs a bath or dock into when damaged like how the carriers shoot arrows that turns into planes, only a fairy can fit into that bathtub.