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This was due to the fact that the doors forward of K all corresponded to the boiler rooms in which various equipment and men needed to be able to pass through. ** Located at the forward end of boiler room 6Īs can be seen from the chart above, the doors forward of bulkhead K were bigger than those aft. * Located at the end of the Fireman's Tunnel vĪpproximate Distance From Midships to Center of Door Also shown is the approximate distance of door from midships. The chart below shows the bulkheads on which the doors were located (letters and numbers), the dimensions of the doors iii, along with the distance between the aft door and the forward door of each compartment iv, along with the contents (on the tank top level) of that space. So that, if necessary, reserve coal, when being worked out with the reserve bunker nearly full, did not come in contact directly with the watertight door. In order to maintain the intactness of this D bulkhead, which is at the after end, and yet enable coal to be got out of it at sea, a watertight box was built over the after end of the pipe tunnel, having ordinary non-watertight doors opening into the reserve bunkers and having a watertight door on the after side opening into the stoke hole. We have a very strong prejudice at Harland & Wolff's to having a watertight door actually adjacent to coal, which has to be worked during the voyage. The reasoning for this is explained by Harland and Wolff architect Edward Wilding: The first door was located at the aft end of the fireman's, or pipe, tunnel, after which a small watertight vestibule was created with another watertight door located aft 9ft away. Saved the ship, because of the red dotted line which I have drawn across as the result of the earlier calculations.Titanic's automatic closing watertight doors were all located on Titanic's tank top level, starting at bulkhead D on forward frame 78, 192ft i from the stem. As Wilding said, 'I believe that no bulkhead arrangement possible forward would have The ship might have been saved provided that there was no damage in BR 4. If the watertight bulkheads were carried up to C deck If the wound came as far aft as BR 5, carrying the watertight bulkheads to D deck would not have saved the ship. The stern is out of the water as far about as the base of the mainmast, or a little further forward.' 'The red line is approximately parallel to the forecastle head, and it shows that Got the black line, which, as you will notice, puts the forecastle entirely under water, and also the forward end of B deck.'Ĭondition B7 - The next was the partial flooding of BR 4 shown in dashed red. 6, adding its flooding effect to the forward spaces, and I 5 boiler room in identically the same way as I had previously flooded No. It means the eventual foundering of the ship.

The water had got up above the top of A bulkhead, and would get down into the rest of the forepeak. 6 boiler room, in addition to the others, of course, which is shown in the blue tint, and gave the blue waterline. 3 hold, which I then wanted to indicate by the red space which isĬondition B5 - 'I then flooded No. Of course,Īs you will see, the water is still at that time below the level of the top of the bulkheads which run to the E deck.'Ĭondition B4 - 'Then, having flooded the forepeak and No. 2 was flooded it would flood the firemen's passage, because, the waterline has then got above the step in the bulkhead and can go down the stairs. 2 hold, which is marked brown, and I got the brown waterline.

TITANIC WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS PLUS

1 hold plus the forepeak.'Ĭondition B3 - 'I then, in addition to having the forepeak flooded and No. 1 hold, which is tinted green, and I got the green waterline. Ĭondition B1 - 'The first thing was to flood the forepeak tank, that was the foremost compartment of the ship, which is marked in yellow, and which gave the yellowĬondition B2 - 'I then flooded No. Condition B0 - The first plan shows the ship in the unflooded condition with the waterline marked as a solid blue line.

Titanic watertight compartments