![]() ![]() ![]() The reasons for locating the heads so far for’d are listed below: The heads on the sailing ships were used only by the crew and officers, with the Captain having his own private head below the “poop deck” (no pun intended) near his stern cabin. Incidentally, the word head came from a Roman galley, where the prow with the armor and battering ram was sometimes referred to as the beak’s head. They were located on each side of the bowsprit, which was an integral part of the ship’s bow, overlooked only by the figurehead at the head of the ship, and this is how the marine toilets become known as the head. In the days of sailing ships, the forerunner of today’s marine toilet was known as the head or heads as there were normally two of them, some of them being enclosed in a shelter like our old outhouse toilets. We begin then with a brief look at the history of the ship’s head. However, in the middle of a dark night, on a rough sea I am sure going to the loo, and having your nether regions splashed by cold seawater was anything but lighthearted. This is a marine article regarding the origin of the marine toilet being known as the head here we will have a light-hearted look at its history. Since then I have been to sea as a Ships Engineer and we all called the marine toilet the head or heads, the name deriving from the days of the wooden sailing ships, when the heads were placed up for’d. I first heard this term used whilst serving my time as a marine fitter in Harland and Wolff Belfast. Introduction to Marine Toilets – Why the Head ![]()
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