The future of RMS Titanic wreck 2012 - 2112
Taken from: The Olympic Class Liners Facebook Group
Most depressing post I’ve ever reblogged.
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On April 15th, 1912, at 2:20am, the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic slipped beneath the icy waves of the Northern Atlantic ocean off the shore of Newfoundland, Canada, claiming 1,517 lives as it sank to its grave. One hundred years later, comprehensive photos of the full wreckage were first released.
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Harding’s patent Litosilo deck sheathing, used to provide durable flooring over the steel decks on the Titanic. Shown above is a period advert for Litosilo, a rendering of a crew dormitory laid with Litosilo, a chunk of Litosilo and lino tiles found at the wreck site, and an illustration of a section of Litosilo & lino-tile-covered deck showing its layers.
Since Titanic’s decks were, at their barest, steel plates riveted together, overlaps in the plates and protruding rivet heads, they needed a basic covering to level them out and make them into suitable floors, as well as to insulate them. In some crew spaces where heavy traffic and wear was expected, the decks were sheathed in pine wood decking. In some areas with a lot of moisture or water, such as the galleys and swimming bath (pool), and where ceramic and brick tiles were laid, the steel deck was covered in a layer of cement, with tiles laid on top. In some rooms above refrigerated cargo spaces, the deck was sheathed in wood, which was then covered with a proper flooring. In many areas of the ship, however, a standard magnesite composition flooring was utilized. On Titanic that composition was Harding’s patent Litosilo, manufactured by C.S. Wilson & Co. of Liverpool.
Litosilo was applied to the steel deck in a pasty liquid form with trowels. It was applied in two layers on Titanic, the bottom a grey, raw, cheaper form of Litosilo, and the top layer a better-quality, colored Litosilo. It was a pinkish-red hue on Titanic, but could be manufactured with any color the client wanted. Litosilo was known to sometimes expand and rise from the deck in places in less ideal conditions, so steel hold-down clips were riveted to the steel plates before the Litosilo was applied. When it dried, Litosilo essentially became a large, solid mass of plastic. It was quite durable, and could either be left bare and used as a floor covering itself, or it could be covered with ‘lino’ tiles or carpet. Some third class and crew spaces on Titanic, like the Third Class Dining Saloon, the crew dormitories, and various corridors had bare Litosilo flooring. In many other areas, like the first class cabins and public rooms such as the Grand Staircase, ‘lino’ tiles or carpet was laid over the composition. Litosilo had a serious disadvantage, though, in that it didn’t react well to water. When water soaked through it, the magnesium chloride in the Litosilo was released, and when it seeped to the steel deck plates below the plates would be eroded by the chemical, resulting in pits and holes in the plates that required expensive repairs. As a result, shipping companies stopped using Litosilo around that time when they found out what was happening, favoring instead a composition called ‘Veitchi’ which was later used on the Britannic.
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Did you know that during the early 1930s, Titanic’s sister-ship, R.M.S. Olympic, had her “Grand Staircase” painted green?! They did it during Olympic’s 1932-33 refit (a kind of “remodeling”). It could have looked something like the above retouched photo. Most of the woodwork was painted avocado green, with various details and carvings in the woodwork being painted gold.
The decision to paint the staircase green was a product of the Art-Deco architectural style of the 1930s, where green would have been one of the “chosen colors”. Newer Deco-Liners were being built, and painting the Olympic’s first class staircases (both fore and aft ones) green was just another way to stay with the times. Many pieces of woodwork were saved from the Olympic when she was scrapped in 1935-37. Click here to see photos of some of those pieces from a 1991 auction in which those pieces were sold off. Some of the photos show coats of green and gold paint on the woodwork.
It’s strange to contemplate this being done to Titanic if she had survived into the 1930s. Imagine the fine woodwork of Titanic’s famous Grand Staircase painted in green and gold!
Retouched photo source: TOCL - Colorized by Ian Ortwein.
Ticket for Titanic launch. #titanic #southstreetseaport (Taken with Instagram)
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As the Titanic sailed out of Southampton, her huge displacement caused the mooring lines on the SS New York to break, and the New York’s stern swung out and nearly hit the Titanic, as seen in this picture.
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One of the many SOS messages sent by the Titanic in April 14/15th 1912
