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Date Posted: 11:17:49 09/24/99 Fri
Author: James Pepper
Subject: Britannic parts manufacturers

In my research for my current Titanic display of two ships at SMU, Dallas, Texas, I read the engineering magazines' articles of the launching concurrently in 1914.

Darlington Forge made the stern framing

The generators were 400kw steam generators by Messrs. W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd in Bedford, they were 3 cylinder compound enclosed types.

The ship's batteries were 4000 amphere hours and a ten-hour rate, the boat Davits were directly connected to the batteries.

The emergency dynamoes on the Saloon Deck were two 30kw Allen Steam driven sets.

The sounding Machine was Mssrs. Kelvin & White

The Britannic had waste water mains, one on each side of the ship, below the water line, instead of the 350 waste pipes on each side of Olympic and Titanic on or above the water line.

The bilge Keel can be clearly seen on the plan 25' and 300 feet

There were powerful electric lights mounted at the top of each davit

The Marconi telegraph had a range of 2000 miles

The Starboard side had a 25 foot isolated veranda while the Port side had the 50 foot private promenade.

Britannic had hot water at the tap, by the use of hot water heaters.

Britannic had fans that could be controlled by the passengers.

There were 1500 Louvres on the side of the ship to bring in fresh air

And I had a list of the bridge equipment, including the monitoring panels but I have just misplaced it. The Marconi room had pneumatic tubes to send messages down to the pursers office.

And of course, Wailes and Dove paint.

An article has been written about my exhibit with a picture, it is at <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://dailycampus.smu.edu">http://dailycampus.smu.edu</a>
Go to archives and look under September 22nd issue. The article is "Historian uses SMU plans to model Titanic". Be ready to spot the inaccuracies. I explained the ship deck by deck, but the editor gave the ship 7 decks (A through G), Other than that, this was a good article that explains the exhibit.

Sincerely,
James Pepper

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Re: Britannic parts manufacturers -- Russ, 00:51:42 09/25/99 Sat