Posted by PJ on September 18, 1998 at 11:11:37 in spider-tf013.proxy.aol.com :
In Reply to: Re: Superstructure Pipe posted by PJ on September 16, 1998 at 17:06:06:
: 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.
My last message is in error. I rechecked "Titanic, an Illustrated History," and the photo (on p. 58) is not the Parisien, but the Verandah Restaurant. The Verandah is on the promenade level, so a pipe in the overhead would be a deck level too high to be the long superstructure pipe, which runs along the outside of the superstructure just outside the promendade deck itself until it turns into the ship. Roy Mengot's revised guide says the long pipe turns down the second support at the aft end, but in the double page stern view of Titanic on pages 26 and 27 of "Illustrated History" the top of the pipe can be seen turning inward at the top of the aft end of the closed in section of the promenade level.