Mark Chirnside
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Styles of staterooms
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Alessandro Del Gobbo
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Hi
speaking about cabins&staterooms, I have found a picture of a 1st class B-deck cabin, but I can't understand what cabin represents.
The capition is 'B1' but I have compared it with my Titanic plans of march 1912 and furnitures don't correspond.
Do you know what cabin is? strony.poland.com/titanicgal/1klasa/b1.jpg
Thanks Ale
speaking about cabins&staterooms, I have found a picture of a 1st class B-deck cabin, but I can't understand what cabin represents.
The capition is 'B1' but I have compared it with my Titanic plans of march 1912 and furnitures don't correspond.
Do you know what cabin is? strony.poland.com/titanicgal/1klasa/b1.jpg
Thanks Ale
Gino Gusmano
Guest
Cameron's sitting room appears quite large compared to the photos I've seen. Is this because the photos are from Olympic's staterooms (sans private promenades)? Did Cameron fudge a bit with the size of the room or is it historically accurate?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
Alessandro Del Gobbo
Guest
Hi,
It is possible that you have compared Cameron photos with Olympic sitting room, and the Olympic sitting room was smaller (because there was the 1st class promenade on each side).
Bye Ale
It is possible that you have compared Cameron photos with Olympic sitting room, and the Olympic sitting room was smaller (because there was the 1st class promenade on each side).
Bye Ale
Daniel Klistorner
Member
Hi,
It wasn't long before I'd nose around here.
Gino, as Alessandro said the Olympic's sitting rooms were smaller than that of the Titanic. Yes Cameron must have fudged. The sitting room is way too big for what the real one was like (not to mention it was the wrong style too) also has furniture that was never in the room.
The promenade in the movie is way too big too also not to mention various inaccuracies in the decoration.
As for the B1 cabin it really is quite simple, however it had taken me months to realize the answer is obvious. Just simply looking at the picture the ceiling is MUCH higher than an A, B or C deck cabin (although the Boat and A deck cabins had 6" higher ceilings than B or C deck). The room is evidently a D deck cabin, where the ceilings were 10'6" (as opposed to 9' or 9'6").
This is (as I have said) a picture of a D deck cabin. It's from the Olympic after it's 1913 refit. For those who have the Olympic May 1913 or June 1914 plans (or even later) the cabin can only be Olympic's D23 or D29.
This explains why the window is at the fore end of the room as this is not usually the case, and the window is usually in the middle of the room. In this case the inner cabin was removed to accommodate a bathroom and the outer cabins were enlarged, so the porthole that was once down the corridor from the inner cabin is now the fore window of the new, larger cabin.
I hope that's helpful and solves the problem for all.
Daniel.
It wasn't long before I'd nose around here.
Gino, as Alessandro said the Olympic's sitting rooms were smaller than that of the Titanic. Yes Cameron must have fudged. The sitting room is way too big for what the real one was like (not to mention it was the wrong style too) also has furniture that was never in the room.
The promenade in the movie is way too big too also not to mention various inaccuracies in the decoration.
As for the B1 cabin it really is quite simple, however it had taken me months to realize the answer is obvious. Just simply looking at the picture the ceiling is MUCH higher than an A, B or C deck cabin (although the Boat and A deck cabins had 6" higher ceilings than B or C deck). The room is evidently a D deck cabin, where the ceilings were 10'6" (as opposed to 9' or 9'6").
This is (as I have said) a picture of a D deck cabin. It's from the Olympic after it's 1913 refit. For those who have the Olympic May 1913 or June 1914 plans (or even later) the cabin can only be Olympic's D23 or D29.
This explains why the window is at the fore end of the room as this is not usually the case, and the window is usually in the middle of the room. In this case the inner cabin was removed to accommodate a bathroom and the outer cabins were enlarged, so the porthole that was once down the corridor from the inner cabin is now the fore window of the new, larger cabin.
I hope that's helpful and solves the problem for all.
Daniel.
Alessandro Del Gobbo
Guest
Hi Daniel,
Thanks a lot for your informations, and, checked that you're so expert
, here another 'strange' pic, it's very difficult to understand what cabin is represented, but probably you can tell me on what deck this cabin was.
Here the link:
strony.poland.com/titanicgal/1klasa/maids.jpg
Thanks Ale
Thanks a lot for your informations, and, checked that you're so expert
, here another 'strange' pic, it's very difficult to understand what cabin is represented, but probably you can tell me on what deck this cabin was.Here the link:
strony.poland.com/titanicgal/1klasa/maids.jpg
Thanks Ale
Daniel Klistorner
Member
I think we might have discussed this somewhere on the board, but it seems that the cabin is not at all from the Olympic or the Titanic. The bed seen in the picture isn't even characteristic of any of the beds used on the two ships.
What web site are these pictures from? I'd be very interested to have a look.
Daniel.
What web site are these pictures from? I'd be very interested to have a look.
Daniel.
Ale Del Gobbo
Guest
Hi,
I took these pics from a poland website, here the url:
strony.poland.com/titanicgal/
There are a lot of errors (like B1), but also nice pics of 1st class interiors.
I'm waiting for an update, with 2nd and 3rd class pics.
Be patient because the site is very slow.
Bye
Ale
I took these pics from a poland website, here the url:
strony.poland.com/titanicgal/
There are a lot of errors (like B1), but also nice pics of 1st class interiors.
I'm waiting for an update, with 2nd and 3rd class pics.
Be patient because the site is very slow.
Bye
Ale
