Titanic Tours of the Wreck – The Decks
Titanic Tours of the Wreck – The Decks Yesterday Nick looked at Titanic’s decks, today we’ll look at some features of these areas on the wreck. There was a thermotank (essentially a ventilator) situated at the base of the fourth funnel as wee saw in Nick’s post. There was a thermotank also on the starboard side of this funnel and the image number 1 shows remnants of a thermotank on Titanic’s debris field. This came either from the port or the starboard side of the fourth funnel. (NOAA) Image number 2 shows this same thermotank up close from the 2010 expedition and we can see that a soup tureen lies at the base of the thermotank. (RmsTitanic,inc) In the first class smoking room, there was also a bar which had two skidlights (portholes) that provided light and air into the smokeroom bar. These skidlights were found on the raised roof structure. The smokeroom is almost completely destroyed, and these skidlights are one of the few still recognizable features of this location. We see these skidlights in the image number 3. (NOAA) Titanic’s swimming pool is unfortunately inaccessible because of closed watertight door, so we can’t explore that on the wreck. However, i looked wreck footage and i believe we see few of the swimming pool portholes on the image number 4. This is not completely certain that these belongs to swimming pool, but anyways these are F deck portholes around the area where the swimming pool was located. (NOAA) During OceanGate’s Survey expedition in 2021, they explored the debris field and came across a floor tile from first class bathroom. Similar tiles would have been found in Titanic’s swimming pool area. Image number 5 (OceanGate). Post by Sauli
Wreck Thursday – First Class Cabin D-33 Henry Sleeper Harper
Wreck Thursday – Henry Sleeper Harper’s First Class Cabin D-33 Cabin D-33 was a ‘typical’ 1st Class cabin aboard Titanic, and by ‘typical’ we refer to the fact that, unlike most cabins located on the Titanic’s upper decks, this cabin had bare riveted steel ceilings, and was furnished with a variety of furniture found in several different other staterooms. Despite these details, the 1st Class cabins on D-deck were comfortable and above standards for other competitive Atlantic liners. D-33 was classified as a ‘Three-Berth’ cabin and was occupied by Mr. Henry Sleeper Harper and party. Mr. Harper, the director of the ‘Harper Publishing Company’ (Who most famously published ‘Harpers Weekly’), boarded the Titanic in Cherbourg, France, accompanied by his wife Myra, her dog ‘Sun Yat Sen’ (An award-winning Pekinese), and their Egyptian interpreter Hammad. Comically enough, it seems like all four of them were in D-33, including their dog, who had its own ‘contract ticket’ for the sum of £1 19s (7d). Mr Harper is perhaps one of the most ‘eccentrically fascinating’ passengers aboard the Titanic. He had survived a prior shipboard encounter with an Iceberg about ten years before Titanic, so it is no wonder that when he received word to don lifejackets and head up to the deck that he did so, and yet.. he evidently led his party to the comparative warmth of the ships Gymnasium for awhile before leading his party over to the Starboard wide where they boarded Lifeboat #3. Boat #3 left the ship at 1am with all four of them safely. When dawn rose on the morning of the 15th, he was overheard remarking on how small the Carpathia was compared to Titanic, and then on the way to New York, he encountered a friend amongst the Carpathia’s passengers and seemed keener to speak about his friends ‘Youthful appearance’ as opposed to talking about the disaster he’d just survived. Hidden deep within the heart of Titanic, it was on September 7th, 2001, that bots Jake & Elwood both captured the first images of Henry Sleeper Harper’s cabin since April 15th, 1912. The cabin, though largely destroyed, revealed an incredible discovery… Let’s take a look at the ruins of D-33 and see this discovery for ourselves! **Please See Images for Additional Information** Post by: Matthew Smathers Information & Images Courtesy Of:Encyclopedia Titanica,Daniel Klistorner,CyArk Archive,Titanic: The Ship Magnificent,Bruce Beveridge,Ken Marschall,Peggywirgau.comStoried Treasures Collection,Harland & Wolff Archive, Previous Next
