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Message: [QUOTE="Jim Currie, post: 452810, member: 144215"] Hello Seamas. As I pointed out to Mark; you cannot compare the davits in Bob Ried's article to the ones fitted on [I]Titanic , [/I]they were of completely different design. Bob anticipated this objection in his summary. In fact, as early as 1910 Welin Davits Ltd., submitted davit designs for [I]Olympic[/I] and[I] Titanic, [/I]to Harland and Wolff or the owners. The File in the UK National Archives includes detailed tracings of the davits fitted to [I]Titanic [/I]and her sister ship the [I]Olympic. [/I] The shipbuilder had nothing to do with the final approval of lifeboat davits fitted to a ship - that was- the remit of the Approval Authority -the MoT The 1913 test on Olympic's auxiliary davits, was simply an upgrade to the previous MoT test used when both ships were built. Apart from the foregoing - do you really think that a Company like Welin would not have carried out exhaustive tests n their product before marketing them? [/QUOTE]