Fireplaces on Titanic

Alright...I'm now going to post my questions more appropriately, as my faux pas with asking so many questions at once caused all of you to completely ignore me. The amusing part was picturing ypu squirming in your seats, WANTING to respond, but realizing it is verboten, chose not to. And I thought the rules of etiquette in 1912 were strict...sheesh!!;(........so here we go. Were the fireplaces in the staterooms steam or electric.? How many actually burned wood? where were they?..
 
Ok, I'll answer to this one. No 'cabins' had fireplaces. The only rooms to have fireplaces were the sitting rooms, B51, B52, C55 and C64. The Shipbuilder actually claimed some cabins even had coal burning fireplaces, but for that there would have had to be some "chimneys" or exhaust pipes, none of which I can see on the deck plans. My best guess is that they were all electric fireplaces.

Daniel.
 
I Thank you very much
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They were actually "fire boxes" carved wood shaped fireplaces (note: They were just shaped like a fire place) and had an electric heater in them, you can see that if you look at a picture really closely, they only resembled fireplaces.
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jm
 
Exactly, it was the only one that actually burnt coal! But, how come it didn't cause any fire during the sinking since it was obviously lit for so many people in the area? Thanks for all your help, this is my 200TH post in the past 5 months! CHEERS ...
 
Well specifically from the many books that ive read (and im not talking about "fiction" books, im talking about actual books about the ship and not some fiction character)I have a news paper article that says something about it, im looking through it right now, when i find the part about the writing room i will quote it

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jm
 
I found it! Okay here it is, It is a direct quote from a shipping magazine in 1911 called "The Shipping World" an issue of June 4th, 1911.Quote- "But it is when we reach the public rooms that we best realize what the large vessel means. She is a floating palace; and in three or four principal rooms there is nothing to distinguish them from the rooms from some stately country house or elegantly furnished hotel on the sea front. It is difficult to believe that we are afloat. This particularly applies to the reading and writing room which Lord Pirrie has confessed is his favourite. Fireplace, bow windows, and the furnishings generally convey an idea of a retreat in some country house amid 'Haunts of Ancient peace'"
 
Hi, Jamil:

Thanks for quoting that article from the Shipping World magazine, but I don't read that to mean that she had a *working* fireplace, just that there was a fireplace in the room.

I know there is another board member who has done extensive research into the fireplaces on board Olympic and Titanic (in fact, he has written an article about it, and it should be published shortly), and he has come to the conclusion that the only one that actually worked was in the Smoking Room.

He is presently off line while he gets a new computer, but when he comes back, I hope he'll chime in on this topic.

Eric Sauder
 
Eric,
Yeah, i cant say that i know the deepest details about the fireplace or not, i just assume that since there was a fireplace it must have been a working one.

Well not true actually, it could have been a decorative fireplace - ive heard of that before, well good luck,

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jamil
 
Sorry to chime in guys, but how could we forget the First Class Lounges huge fireplace. To the best of my knowledge (although this is limited) the Smoking Room as discussed above is the only room to have had a working fireplace as pictures of it show the various trays and other things required for a working fireplace, and all the protective gubbins (can i use that word??) Although inspecting archive pictures of the first class lounge seem to show a useable fireplace?? Whether or not it was electric or not is a different matter??

Stu
 
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