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Same on our destroyer in 1970. "Rig for red" is always common at night (though I suppose on our surface ship it meant more).
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SSBN we rigged for red on every mid-watch in the entire Ops compartment, less the wardroom and crew's mess. Crew's mess had a jog from the passageway that acted as a bit of a light trap. Mostly done to encourage quiet for berthing in Ops lower-level. On-going OOD wore red-lens goggles at midrats in wardroom. Going to PD we rigged for black in Control and left rest of Ops compartment at red--there was an interior door between Control and Ops UL passage.
Remember one time my CO, who liked red roller-ball pens, wrote a note to the OOD and sent it in by the messenger-of-the-watch. OOD looked at the "blank" piece of paper, tossed it in the garbage. Later, voices were raised . . .
Sometime in the late-80s or early-90s SSBNs went to "rig-for-grey" filters over white lights for Control. Don't know if they were more effective, but I think you'd lose some atmosphere.
Sonar shack was always blue lights to help with reading the stacks. We called it "the disco".