Designed and built in California by the Douglas Aircraft Company, the DC-3 had originally been designed as a luxury airliner for American Airlines flying 14-berth sleeper services complete with dressing rooms, a 'honeymoon cabin,' and a galley serving hot meals, from New York to Chicago.
The separate Galley cafe serves toasted sandwiches (£4.85), sweet treats from £2 and coffee.
We moved faster once we'd reached I-95, a two-lane employees-only corridor that runs most of the length of the ship, on Deck 2. From there we climbed a service stairway and crossed a corridor to the ship's largest galley, which serves Opus.
Another station was a galley kitchen serving rice and beans.
Before takeoff, a man dressed in a uniform of stripey vest and shorts emerges from the galley to serve shots of vodka.
Amenities included a galley that could serve hot and cold food and drinks, a bar, and separate men's and women's toilets.
So Ben-Hur is clearly a good yarn, telling as it does the struggles of a young Jew, who is betrayed, meets Christ, and then serves as a Roman galley slave before becoming a charioteer and facing down his enemies.
Its nautical theme includes a Chris Craft boat built into the walls that serves as a bar and soda fountain and a kitchen designed to mimic a ship's galley.
Two airlines with schedules that are heavy with short flights, Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways, do not use carts, instead serving from galleys using plastic trays.
Peter* is a chef in a popular upscale Italian restaurant in Zurich, who has asked to remain anonymous so he can talk freely about just how many drugs he takes at his restaurant, and reveal what he saw working the galleys of cruise ships, serving up buffet-style meals and hiding filth from inspectors.
