What is the name of the toilet on the ship?
Correct answer: Head
RLC
Old Navy man here, so was easy.
Nostromo
The reason it's placed at the head/bow is because on sailing ships the wind blows forward...just in case that wasn't obvious. Same with the galley on a lot of ships - the cooking smells get pushed ahead by the wind, so as not to distract the hungry sailors from their jobs.
Bunny22
I learned that when I was the wife of a US Navy sailor! What a career, just wonderful.
Tom
head comes from the water pressure. One metre head of pressure means if you opened the tap the water would go up one metre. On a ship the water pressure needs to be controlled or the lower levels would have huge water pressure and the upper ones would not get water.