Posted by PJ on September 16, 1998 at 17:06:06 in spider-te072.proxy.aol.com :
In Reply to: Superstructure Pipe posted by Mike Pell on September 12, 1998 at 22:07:51:
: Underneath the superstructure runs a pipe along the majority of its length. The pipe can be seen coming up the 2nd (middle) post of the foreward B deck promenade then bending towards the stern. My question is how far back does this pipe run under the superstructure overhang? Page 92 of Titanic At Two shows a picture of the Olympic and it appears as though this pipe ran to the farthest post aft on the superstructure and then bent down towards the B deck floor. Was this the same for the Titanic? One painting I have been looking at (Titanic) seems to have the pipe ending at the aft end of the Cafe Parisien then bending inward where the aft B deck open promenade begins.
: I wish to add this pipe in part to mask the seam between the superstructure and the hull but mainly to add as much detail as possible to the 1/350 model.
: Any ideas anyone?
: Cheers, Mike
If you look at the photograph of the outside Cafe Parisien taken from the promenade deck and looking forward [lower left corner of one of the left hand pages -- my book is not with me just now] in "Titanic, an Illustrated History" with a magnifying glass, there is a pipe that crosses the overhead from just outboard of the open area and runs into the bulkhead that is the exterior of the restaurant just below the lower edge of the deck above. It is back about half the length of the cafe. This pipe appears to come from the forward part of the ship, although it is difficult to be sure whether the part going forward is the pipe or just a bead along the edge of the deck above. I would guess it is the aft end of the long pipe that runs along the superstructure, based on the comments from others.