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Dave Gittins
Member
Username: gittins
Post Number: 4007
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 7:52 am: | 
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On Monday I sailed to our Outer Harbor to see the cruise ship Arcadia. I thought she looked quite good, as such ships go.
The visibility was affected by smoke from the Victorian bushfires, hundreds of kilometres away. I deleted a photo of the ship taken from less than a mile off as unusable.
I'm puzzled by a big black object that divides the cabins into two sections. It's about halfway along the ship. It looks to me like a ramp for vehicles, such as I've seen on car transports. Can anybody enlighten me?
Dave Gittins
Titanic: Monument and Warning.
http://users.senet.com.au/~gittins/Book.html
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Bob Godfrey
Member
Username: bobgod1
Post Number: 4631
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 9:55 am: |
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Hallo, Dave. The Arcadia has a distinctive vertical strip of smoked glass covering the external lift shafts, right under the name plates on each side. Doesn't look anything like a ramp, though, so maybe I'm on the wrong track. |
Joe Russo
Member
Username: joserus
Post Number: 484
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 8:37 pm: |
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Yep, those are the glass external elevator shafts which all of the Vista Class ships have with the exception of Queen Victoria.
See link to image of this on Noordam.
http://polytropia.com/images/musings/MM45_NoordamGlassElevators.jpg |
Dave Gittins
Member
Username: gittins
Post Number: 4008
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 8:56 pm: |
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I thought I'd get good info!
Many thanks to Bob and Joe!
It wasn't only Adelaide that was smoked.
Dave Gittins
Titanic: Monument and Warning.
http://users.senet.com.au/~gittins/Book.html
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