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Date Posted: 23:21:44 10/30/99 Sat
Author: Bruce Beveridge
Subject: Re: Britannic's Bridge Floor
In reply to: James pepper 's message, "Re: Britannic's Bridge Floor" on 21:58:11 10/30/99 Sat

Those certainly look like the regular 12 X 12 linoleum floor tiles. They have all kinds of things screwed up here however. First of all, they show the picture of the Olympics Navigating bridge. There are five telegraphs in the picture. They keep referring to "four" main telegraphs. There should be six, five at the least. Two on each side for the docking and main pairs and then the telegraph closest to the wheel on the port side should be the turbine telegraph. There should be a steering telegraph closest to the wheel on the starboard side. It is possible that this, or the turbine telegraph, was not installed on the Britannic, but they should have been there. They also refer to the remains of where the wheel attached and the spindles. This device was on the Navigating bridge. The Navigating bridge was the area forward of the wheel house where the telemotor was. the navigating wheel was mounted to a pedestal, the pedestal was connected to a drive shaft that ran through the binnacle and to a gear box that extended aft to the telemotor in the wheel house . They have these references all screwed up.
James, I know you know all of this stuff, but this is for anyone else who doesn't.
They very well may have tiled the floor of the wheel house with linoleum. I bet those pictures with the linoleum are of the wheel house, not the navigating bridge.
Looking at the Litosilo advertisement, it appears that it was not used in the navigating bridge or the wheel house, but who knows.

Bruce

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