Posted by Bruce Beveridge on September 24, 1999 at 05:19:16 in 199.179.162.122 :
In Reply to: Re: Accumulating Room posted by James Pepper on September 24, 1999 at 04:10:17:
I understand why you would trust the Engineering book but I have seen the length written from 882'9" on up. The length was not enlarged due to the inner skin, the ship was designed with the inner skin. It wasn't an add on. I do believe, though some may argue, that the ship had a wider beam because of the inner skin. If the ship were the beam of T & O, the outboard boilers would not fit inside (this was discussed before). The Olympic, upon getting an inside skin, had to have her out board boilers replaced with smaller diameter boilers. For the sake of argument, I will relook the plans over to see if they match with the O and T plans in length, However, I have found these plans to be pretty accurate to the lengths and widths and as I said, it measured out to 882'9".
Bruce