Rare Footage - What are the Crew Doing?

[Aaron_2016]

Here is rare footage of the Olympic (perhaps taken by a passenger). It looks like 2 First class stewards are carrying a box from 3rd class to 1st class. Anyone know what this could be? Also a Quartermaster appears to take a short cut and climbs down the crane to reach the deck below. Was this perfectly normal? Was he not allowed to use the passenger's staircase?

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[Stephen Carey]

The stewards could be carrying anything from the stores to their workplace - possibly cutlery, napkins, tablecloths etc, but unlikely to be food. The QM was just taking the quick route down rather than use the ladders which would have been a roundabout route. My four 'pennorth!