A1Sailor
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I suspect AISailor had tongue in cheek, I'm sure they do look out of the windows occasionally though from recent American and now Norwegian events maybe not often enough - probably not matelots wandering around and I doubt the Captain paces the quarterdeck - though that was indeed the case on a carrier dad was on in WWII.
My recollection of "big ship" bridge watchkeeping from 1985 is that it can all go pear shaped awfully quickly. I was never OOW - just unqualified 2nd OOW scribbling stuff on the map (or is it a chart?) taking fixes and keeping everybody supplied with wets. By the time one had written down a couple of bearings taken on the big fixed compass on one bridge wing and sprinted across the bridge (through the doors) to the other then scribbled some lines by hat was indeed hugely cocked and the ship was now nowhere near where it had been! Radar was used (ranges to fixed points, not bearings) as was Decca. There was a GPS but for some reason it didn't seem to be used/relied upon. There was a compass in the middle of the bridge, which tended to influence your choice of three points to get bearings on!
There was very good visibility from ahead round to about green/red 120 and while there was a window on each side looking "aft" to get a decent view you went outside onto the bridge wings (so out of earshot of the bridge) and you couldn't see anything directly astern.