Don Cleavin – Rum tots and fresh water

The Chef had free access to the water for cooking purposes, but … the Navy submarines used to get wrong, going back awhile, if you got the rum issue, it was one part of rum, one part of water for the Junior Rates.

Senior Rates got a neat tot.

A neat tot is quite a lot of rum, but the Junior Rates got one on one, one part water, one part of rum.

Surface ships had one part of rum, two parts of water, because of the usage of water you see.