Skin Fitting - d'oh

[macd]

Many thanks, Rowana.

The info on the link is clearly wrong where it states that 'she returned to service on the Britannic after the war' since by then the Britannic was at the bottom of the Med. It seems that her post-war posting was actually on the Olympic.

Searching 'Voilet Jessup' throws up several other helpful links (some under 'Violet Jessop').
Wikepedia has a fair bit on her at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

Apparently her life story is covered in "Titanic Survivor, " edited by John Maxtone-Graham.

Sorry folks, for the relevant-impertinent transition. I'll leave you now to get back to the ductile-brittle business.

 

[vyv_cox]

Sorry for Fred Drift, but the Titanic's sister ships, were Olympic and Brittanic (I'm not being pedantic: my point, such as it is, comes at the end).

The Oceanic was an earlier ship with the same White Star line, designed by Thomas Ismay, father of Titanic designer Joseph. Ironically she was involved in the Titanic rescue. She was wrecked off Shetland in Sept 1914.

My mistake, should have checked first. It was the Olympic I was referring to. See here, although this is not the exact article I recall, which was about the rivets, not the plate. A better article, which seems to contradict the other, is here.

 

[pampas]

Just a bit of useless information, the T2 tankers were turbo-electric propulsion!

They were kept in service for some time after the war unril replacement tonnage could be built. They had long gone before I went to sea, but I did sail with a few old engineers who had sailed on them. I was told, although I don't know if it was true or not, that some T2's were taken up to the head of remote Norwegian fiords when their sailing days were over, parked alongside and the turbines used to generate power for the local town.

Quite correct, Falmouth docks 1958/9 I helped as an apprentice to convert the Red Bank for shore distribution, big gantry just forward of aft pump room main engine controls with change over to new system boilers arranged to take fuel from main cargo tanks. sailed to Sweden to supply power for their underground armed forces.

 

[Vara]

point of information, please VicS.

I have come across thermal embrittlement a bit, but are any of the metals used in boat fittings likely to become fragile in the temps we have had recently (Say down to -12 or so ) ?

I don't know either, but the handles on Land Rovers snap off in -25.

 

[earlybird]

Just in the spirit of further drift, the oak panelling and staircase of the dining room of the White Swan in Alnwick are the originals from the Olympic.

 

[Rowana]

Quite correct, Falmouth docks 1958/9 I helped as an apprentice to convert the Red Bank for shore distribution, big gantry just forward of aft pump room main engine controls with change over to new system boilers arranged to take fuel from main cargo tanks. sailed to Sweden to supply power for their underground armed forces.

Red Bank was one of 10 T2's that were in the BP Tanker fleet. The others were Rogue River, Cottonwood Creek, Fort Stevens, Chisolm Trail, Fort Frederica, Mesa Verde, El Morro, Beecher Island and Smoky Hill.

There's a picture of Smoky Hill here - http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=44209

I was with BP Tankers between 1969 and 1975.

 

[dmayes]

Alignment

Looks as if the aft screw is just to keep position so the grill is facing forward. If the screw hole still lines up then you will not have turned the main shaft and disturbed the sealing. If the screw does not line up with the hole then you must have twisted the main shaft while tapping with the hammer, in that case you may want to reseal.