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Date Posted: 04:15:39 01/04/00 Tue
Author: Remco
Subject: Re: New observation
In reply to: Dan Hughes 's message, "New observation" on 19:28:07 01/03/00 Mon

> I've been away from the message board for a while, so
> I apologize if this is old news.
>
> A while back it was mentioned that at night the red
> crosses and a string of green lights were lit up on
> Britannic. On pages 428 and 429 of "Sisters" just
> under the overhang of the promenade deck there is a
> series of evenly spaced rectangular shapes that run
> from the fore end of the promenade all the way back to
> the aft end of the shade deck. You can see them
> clearly strung above the heads of the men standing
> over the covered well deck on B deck. There seems to
> be a conduit or cable that supports the lights thatis
> attached to the stanchions in the second class area of
> B deck and to the stanchions for the shade deck. If
> you have "The Last Voyage of HMHS Britannic" you can
> see light boxes from the back in the bottom photo of
> page 15. You can see the lights span the covered well
> deck area and run under the shade deck. There must be
> 4 or five stanchions along the railing of the open
> span of B deck to support the lights. Three
> stanchions are visible with a wire running through an
> eye loop at the top.
>
> I imagine she looked pretty handsome all lit up.

Funny you mention this, yesterday I was just looking at a zoom-in picture of the bridge area(thanks to Bruce:-)) and that also got my attention.
I believe it's also visible in a wreckpicture of the '99 expedition, at the aft end of B-deck I thought.
I'll try to find and post the link.

Regards,
Remco

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