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  1. Alexander Filin

    Question Need information about Pier 48 during Titanic's docking

    Good day to all ! I am an artist, At the moment I am painting a picture on the theme of the Titanic parking in Southampton on the morning of April 4. I want to make the image as believable as possible. I will be glad of any help. I am specifically interested in Pier No. 48, it is clear that...
  2. N

    Arrol Gantry crane plans.

    If this is the wrong place for this thread toi be posted, please have this movied. As of right now, I'm workign on and almost finished working on a shipbucket scale drawing of Arrol Gantry. I'm at the stage where I will draw the service crane. The problem is that thew only image i could find of...
  3. Samuel Halpern

    Object on the Floating Crane Barge

    What is that object that can be seen on the floating-crane barge in a photograph of Titanic being fitted out in the Thompson dry-dock at the H&W shipyard in February 1912? Was it a propeller waiting to be fitted onto the center-propeller shaft of Titanic? How many propeller blades does it...
  4. Cam Houseman

    Debris Field Photos

    Hi Y'all. This shall be my final group of photos: the Debris Field. To the Port of the Stern: Crane 1 Crane 2 Crane 3: Crane 4 Stern Starboard Side Debris Red and White Tiles (these things are everywhere!) Surviving Rigging? Perhaps from the Mast, or Funnels? Behind the Stern, I...
  5. Itsstillthinking

    Forward Anchor Crane Mystery

    The title to this topic might sound misleading, but i will explain in a moment. We are all familiar with the bow section of the wreck, with the iconic forward anchor crane perfectly straight forward. The theory that most of us are familiar with is from JC, when in 2001 he discovered the...
  6. A

    Stern Cargo Cranes Different on Olympic

    I noticed the crane doors are different on the Olympic. Was there a reason for the difference? Titanic (left) Olympic (right) The Olympic in 1922. Was it necessary to have so many door handles on the Olympic? .
  7. H

    Titanic Launch: RMS Olympic in photo?

    Whilst looking on Amazon for possible Titanic books to buy in the future, I came across "Titanic and her Sisters Olympic and Britannic" by Peter Davies-Garner. a model making book describing technical details of the Olympic class vessels should you wish to build one from scratch. (Link to book...
  8. O

    Titanic postcard, photo with floating crane

    please can someone help i have a post card of the titanic which has been in my family for over 20years, i have tried to find another but never could until i found one on ebay which sold for a few hundred pounds, could someone have a look at i for me and see what they think , thank you:)
  9. Anna Simpson

    Sell the Cranes?!?

    Hello everyone, I read in John-Maxtone Graham"s Titanic Tragedy that the Samson and Goliath cranes are "available for removal and reerection". Does anyone know if this is true? The statement about the cranes is on pg 69 , at the end if chapter 3 for those of you who have the book...
  10. K

    deck cranes

    Hi- my name is Ken Rote and I am new to this. For the last 10 years I have been building a 16 foot model of the Titanic. I have about 3700 hours of work into it. My question to te members is on the 8 cranes. I want to know how the boom on the cranes raise and lower? From what I see is the...
  11. J

    Cargo Cranes

    I seem to remember somewhere I saw a cross-sectional cut of one the cargo cranes, I believe it was one of the poop deck cranes. Does anyone know where I could find one? Any information would be appreciated. Thanks, James Chaney
  12. B

    Piece of the Harland and Wolff 200 ton crane

    I am interested in a framed or unframed piece of the Harland and Wolff 200 ton FLOATING CRANE imported from Germany by H&W to help build the Olympic-class ships. Please contact me at [email protected]
  13. E

    Olympics's cranes

    I've tried searching for the life of me but I can't find this info. I'm doing a final 3D panorama image with the Titanic and Olympic and I was wondering if the cranes on the Olympic actually was raised/lifted as seen in several images? For instance I've seen on several images where the...
  14. M

    Olympics's cranes in the 1930's

    Why did they just paint the aft cranes and not the ones in the forward well-decks as well, when they was painted dark in the 30's? And was this a dark grey tone? Darker than the roofs? Regards from snowy Norway, Morten Jensen
  15. P

    Spare anchor and crane

    I am curious how the spare anchor in the bow was supposed to work. The crane looks too weak to hold it but I guess it was there only to move the anchor around. But what then? How could the anchor be dropped?
  16. V

    Cargo cranes

    Hi! What sizes of cargo cranes onboard "Titanic" were (i.e. general height of the crane, height and radius of the basis of the crane, length of a outrigger of the crane and so on)? Are any drawings of these cranes available in the net? (excuse my bad english )
  17. J

    H & W's huge German fitting out crane

    Does anyone know anything about his huge German "fitting out" crane. It apparently floated. You see it in many of the "fitting" pictures of Olympic and Titanic -- at different locations. I have two pictures of Titanic that look virtually the same --- yet one shows the crane, the other...
  18. Bob Read

    Crane Manufacturer's ID plate

    On Titanic's cranes there was a manufacturer's ID plate on one side of the tower. The words on the plate were: Stothert & Pitt Limited Engineers...
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