Posted by Bruce Beveridge on February 22, 1999 at 12:35:14 in 199.179.162.90:
In Reply to: Roy's Smoke room Portholes posted by Todd Hughes on February 21, 1999 at 16:02:54:
It certainly appears from looking at the Ballard book that the aft wall of the smoke room has been bent back. I have searched the Cork picture and the Mirror picture as well some others and these side/skid lights are just out of view in any of the pictures. The skid lights should be of the same configuration as the windows that stick up on to the sides of the raised roofs. and probably the same for these aft skid lightssidelights . I have no evidence that they were pebbled. I don't have any reason to believe they should be. What you see in the examples of the officers house skid lights and the Raised roof windows are a protective cover bolted on the bulkhead. It appears dark because it is dark behind these covers at least darker than the outside. The windows are recessed in the case of the raised roofs and in the case of the officers quarters skid lights, they service the 1st class stae rooms through an angled tube down. They look as though they are not clear but frosted. Not frosted as we know it. The glass is blown with an additive that gives it that frosted look like a stained glass window. This is probably what the Shipbuilder book is referring to when it talks of the skid lights and sidelights of certain rooms having a patented glass that dispurses sun light more evenly. The Shipbuilder mentions the 1st class stae rooms below the officers house directly. I forgot the name of the company credited for making them. I would paint these glass covers a medium shade of gray.
Bruce