Britannic First Class R & W room

[Lars Noorman]

Hello,

Does anyone here know something about Britannic's Reading & Writing room?? The room @ the britannic had Straight walls but i need to know the window places

Greetings
Lars

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Hi Lars!

Not sure what you mean. According to her plans Britannic R&W room must have 3 windows. A big one and two smaller one there were the bulkhead forms like a U. The big window was in the middle. Sorry, difficult to explain. I am not English.

Ioannis

 

[Lars Noorman]

Hi Ioannis,

I'm not English too I'm trying to recreate The A Deck of Britannic. According to the Deck plans of Britannic, the following picture must be the R&W room.

I hope you can help me out,

Lars

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Hi Lars,

yes, that is the R&W room. The windows were there were the wall goes like this )
There was a window in the middle. )-
Then one window right and one left of it. I don't think I have a picture to can show you.
Good picture, have you make it?

 

[Lars Noorman]

Hi Ioannis,

Thanks for the info yes i made it with sketchup. that's the A Deck model what i'm making.
I let you know when it's quite finnished

Lars

 

[Lars Noorman]

Hi Ioannis, All,

Is this correct??

Lars

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Yes,the windows are on the correct place!
Good work!

 

[Lars Noorman]

Hello all,

I may be a little stupid because i forget the name of the object XD I have a picture where you can see it. Does that thing appeared in the R & W room on Britannic too??

Lars

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Hi Lars!

I am also not sure how it is called.
However this was not planned for Britannic! Only Titanic was having it and the Olympic before her 1912/13 refit. Britannic, like Olympic after refit, would have a wall looking like the wall aft were the fireplace was.

Ioannis

 

[Lars Noorman]

Hi Ioannis,

So @ the olympic, that 'thing' was replaced by a wall?? Did the Britannic had a fireplace @ the R & W room??

Lars

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Hi again!

So far as I know Britannic must have also a fireplace on the same place were Olympic and Titanic were having one.

Yes, the "thing" on Olympic was replaced by a wall. While Titanic was in service it was decided that the R&W room was too big. Only a few people use it. So it was decided to cut the one alcove of the R&W room and place there 4 1st class suites, which were behind the forward 1st class staircase and the R&W room. This was then done during the Olympic refit, were she also got also a Cafe Parisien on B deck and a few other things.

Ioannis

 

[Lars Noorman]

Hi,

I didn't know at all that the Olympic had a Parisien Café later nice to know

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Around 1912/13 Olympic was looking more and more like Titanic in some places.
The A la carte restaurant on B-deck was extended on the port side until to the hull. And on starboard she got a Cafe Parisien which was a popular place on Titanic. If you ask me, Olympics Cafe Parisien was better.

Ioannis

 

[Lars Noorman]

I have another question:

@ Britannic's Boat Deck, The Reading & Writing room's Raised roof. The deckplans say that is has a straight line but the A Deck Plan shows something else.

Don't look @ the colours i'm trying to make them better but only look @ the red mark

lars

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Lars,

sorry, I am not quite sure what you mean. So far as I can see you plan of A deck is correct, going by her plans.
On port side of the boat deck (over the 4 or 5 suites in front of the R&W room)there was placed a new room on Britannic, which would be the Childrens Play Room. Maybe you mean that?