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Fwiw, at 7 AM every day was an activity called “Reinschiff”. We call it “field day” in the US military, but it’s an all-hands cleaning time. Cleaning was somewhat of a perpetual thing aboard the boat, because there was always one or two sailors tasked with doing miscellaneous things aboard between watch times, including cleaning.

In short, an excessively dirty boat is indeed not historical.

Also, not quite fair to say just because you haven’t been there means you don’t know. That’s what historical research using good source material is aimed to do - understand how things were without having been there.