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In the two direct employ British companies that I worked for (Brocklebanks and P&O) you most certainly did not do nothing in port. They expected all preventive maintenance to be carried out, repairs that had not been carried out at sea for whatever reason to be completed, anything to bring the station and equipment up to date. As an example both companies had their own equipment monitoring books which required you to take weekly readings, voltage mainly, at pre designated circuit points throughout the equipment. These were company not manufacturer generated. It was a long time ago but the book for the AEI radars in the mid 60s contained about 50 readings from memory. They were very useful tools in both fault finding but also in what subsequently became called preventive maintenance (PM) where you could see from the readings something was starting to fail.
I am not saying we worked flat out every day in every port but neither did we lock the Radio Room until it came time to sail.
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