Posted by James Pepper on September 24, 1999 at 04:00:13 in 205.188.197.188 :
In Reply to: Re: Accumulating Room posted by Bruce Beveridge on September 24, 1999 at 02:35:39:
Bruce:
It was in the 1914 edition of Engineering for the first half of the year. Around page 273, there are about 10 plates of the Britannic in folio size, including schematics of the engine, and a great deal of detail on the turbine. This turbine was larger than Titanic and Olympic and had steam directly from the boilers, instead of from the engines. You should see this!, the references to the plumbing was in the launch issue. It indicated that there was this fresh water tank along with the other water tanks on deck. Together with your information on the pipes on the funnels, I think you will finally figure out the plumbing on this ship.
From what I read there is a salt water tank, a fresh water tank and a drinking water tank. If it is only one fresh water tank, that water was filtered before it got to the tank. The filtering process took a while and the filters got clogged, it was not something they liked to attend to. So I got the impression that the drinking water was a separate tank.
Also, Britannic had hot water heaters to deliver hot water from the tap, this saved waiting for the water to heat up, In T and O a person had to wait for the hot water to come, thus wasting water.
This edition also has a complete description of the Aquitania with plans, schematics etc. In this particular edition that I was looking at, the plans of the ship had become un-bound from the book, several years ago, and had deteriorated at the edges. The librarians are going to make a copy of the plans for me and for the edition and then place the originals in storage. They can not rebound this book due to its age. So I'm going to have a copy of the original plans to the Aquitania.