Titanic Construction Photos

[Bruce Wayne]

http://www.maritimequest.com/liners/titanic_page_1.htm

 

[MisterCairo]

Fascinating and sad at the same time. Also, the "what if" if the NEW YORK had collided in-harbour, delaying the voyage:

"April 10, 1912: While passing the New York, the hydrodynamic forces from Titanic's screws caused the New York to break her moorings and nearly collide with her. Coming within a few feet of ending her maiden voyage in Southampton."

 

[LocktownDog]

Fantastic.

 

[Deco-Doll-1928]

I like the pictures of the random guy sitting right next to the machinery to give you some sort of an idea of scale. It would have been amazing to see all of that in person.

 

[Stearmen]

Actually, Titanic was suppose to make her maiden voyage on March 20, 1912. Her sister ship Olympic collided with the cruiser HMS Hawke, and had to put in for major repairs, pushing Titanic back to April. At 5:50pm April 14, 1912 Captain Smith ordered a new heading South of the standard heading, and of course directly on a heading for the ice burg. There are apparently several little decisions, that if any one of them were changed Titanic never would have sunk! On a side note 8 men died building Titanic, this was more then acceptable, since one man for every $500,000 was the norm! Titanic cost $7,500,000, so 15 would have been acceptable. Still operating on Victorian standards.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Very interesting - thanks for posting!

 

[Tomasso]

There are apparently several little decisions, that if any one of them were changed Titanic never would have sunk! .

Yep!

 

[ButteMT61]

Wow - thanks for posting. What great pix...I can't get enough Titanic pix, stories, etc...

 

[filfoster]

Back during the post-Titanic movie craze, there were several good, large format books with similar photos.
After touring a WWII Battleship below decks, and looking at these Titanic photos, who would not impressed by the force of this technology? Miles and miles of pipes and wires, controls that were 'state of the art' but antique now, these things were mammoth! The man-hours!
And the scale, as observed by others above, makes the workers look Lilliputian. It seems impossible that machines, particularly the huge cast parts, could be built to that size,in that era.
Leviathan indeed!

 

[Warden]

A Titanic first class deck plan belonging to a wealthy New York couple who were drowned at sea could fetch £50,000 at auction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15342507