[TEC] Submarine Crew

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Some notes I've made on U-boat crew compositions:

• Radiomen: there were typically four radiomen on board. Two would be petty officers (funkmaat/obermaat) and two junior enlisted sailors (funkgefreiter/obergefreiter). One would be in the radio shack, the other at the hydrophone station.
• Bridge watch was typically one officer, one petty officer, and two junior enlisted sailors. The navigator and chief bosun also stood watch as the 3rd and 4th watch officers, respectively. There typically was also an officer cadet on board the boat as well who would stand watch.
• Diesel compartment: this was headed by an Obermaschinist. Each watch typically consisted of one maschinenmaat/obermaat and two maschinengefreiter/obergefreiter.
• Motor compartment: same as the diesel compartment.
• Torpedo crew: typically one mechanikermaat/obermaat and two mechanikergefreiter/obergefreiter. Obermaat was the highest rating for a torpedo mechanic on a U-boat.
• Control room: other than the chief engineer, typically two enlisted personnel from the maschinist ranks would be on duty at a time here: 1 maat/obermaat and 1 gefreiter/obergefreiter.