Fastidious Flattop - Japanese helicopter carrier wages daily war on dirt and grime


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Oct 2018

ABOARD JS KAGA (Reuters) - Japan's Kaga helicopter carrier is not the biggest, fastest or most powerful warship to sail the seas, but its 500 crew wage a daily war on dirt and grime to keep it the cleanest.

At sunset each evening on a nine-day goodwill voyage from Indonesia to Sri Lanka, Reuters journalists watched the crew arm themselves with mops, brushes and dusters to clean the 248 metre long (813 ft) ship.

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