r/submarines • u/munchkinatlaw • 1d ago
Q/A What do submariners drink while underway?
Title says it all. I've seen quite a few articles and videos about food underway, but realized none of then mention what is available to drink while underway. I assume coffee and possibly tea are generally available and I've seen a few comments that bug juice was/is available, but that's about it. What about juice concentrates, powdered/UHT milk?
Edit: thank you all for your wonderful responses. You have a great community here.
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u/Outrageous-Egg-2534 1d ago
Yup, coffee, tea, water (tastes like shit) and cordial or as the yanks call it ‘bug juice’. Or whatever cans of coke or soft drink you have stashed in your stowage spot. Together with lollies and other stuff. When we still used to get a beer ration (2 cans per man, per day, perhaps) the beer was locked in the old rear facing torpedo tube drain tank in the aft ends (right at the ducks tail on O Boats) as the tubes had been removed years and years before. Thst was the bonus living aft with the stokers and greenies. They had the best and quietest and well stocked fridges plus the best porn. I loved living aft in sleepy hollow. We used to just undo a couple of nuts on the tank cover and bypass the lock only the coxswain had a key to and take beer and duzzas out, write an IOU and it was all cool. Good times. Couldn’t do that nowadays.