Britannic First Class Smoking Room

[Brian R Peterson]

Hi All!

Back again with my concept of the Britannic Smoking Room

Best Regards,

Brian

 

[Chris Mazzella]

Once again a job greatly done Brian!

 

[Chris Mazzella]

Are these actually drawings of what the rooms on britannic were suppose to look like or modified ones of titanic or olympic?

 

[Jason D. Tiller]

Great work Brian!

Best regards,

Jason

 

[Brian R Peterson]

Hi Chris!

I base my work on the Harland & Wolff concept sketches and descriptions of what the Britannic's interiors were to look like when completed, so yes the drawings I've done are what the Britannic's First Class public rooms would have looked like.

Best Regards,

Brian

 

[Chris Mazzella]

could u send me some any copies?

 

[Matt Smith]

Super nice Brian keep up the good work!

 

[Matt Endacott]

Hey Brian, can you tell me where i could find the descriptions of the Britannic's public rooms & also their first sketches. Also, could you please email any other pics you've done, they look great!
Good job.
[email protected]

Best Regards,
matt

 

[Brian R Peterson]

Hi Matt!

The descriptions of the Britannic First Class public rooms can be found in most books on the subject, or what survives of Harland & Wolff's archive on the liner. I could send you all the pictures I have rendered but they may not send depending on how much your inbox can handle. I will send them in several separate emails.

Best Regards,

Brian

 

[Steve Olguin]

I was looking at the Builders Plans (the ones with the eraser markings still visible) and I noticed something that I have never noticed, not even in all my time spent on The OBRC, that the smoking room originally had a different layout. It appears Britannic's original concept had no accumulator room and two sets of square bay windows, rather than just the one each side of the ship. The room occupies the are which became the Veranda pantry and the smoke room bar, and the bar appears to be in place of the mens lav., while the lav. has been moved into a section of the Accumulator Room) This concept would have been grand, although quite large for a smoking room. The need for more pantry facilities in the Veranda and Palm Courts is another obvious reason why this arrangement was changed.

Any more insight?

 

[Luke Mack]

What is an Accumulator room?

 

[Noel F. Jones]

A room for accommodating accumulators.

Perhaps I ought to go on to say that an accumulator was an old style battery usually consisting of lead plates suspended in acid and capable of storing and re-emitting an electric current passed into them.

They obviously provided a reserve electricity supply. I assume this was for the W/T (radio) room but perhaps others can confirm.

Noel

 

[Steve Olguin]

I thought it had something to do with water.

 

[Steve Olguin]

I would post the blueprint, but would rather not due to it being owned by Bruce beverdige.

 

[Noel F. Jones]

"I thought it had something to do with water."

There were hydraulic accumulator towers but these were eminently terrestrial structures. A dead weight was pumped up the tower on a piston during slack energy demand times (usually overnight) and it was then released to provide hydraulic pressure on its descent to such as dock gates, cranes etc. The system is redundant nowadays but you can still see the towers preserved at various industrial sites, including Liverpool and Birkenhead docks.

Noel