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Titanic boiler room flooding
Titanic boiler room flooding










titanic boiler room flooding

Did you assist in carrying out that order?ģ761. Subsequently to that was an order given to draw the fires?ģ759. I could not tell you how long it was kept up, but that was the order - "Keep steam up."ģ758. Was an order given you with regard to the fires shortly after that?ģ757. Opened the doors - assisted to open the other doors.ģ755. Were the boilers lit in the stokehold?ģ751.

titanic boiler room flooding

The one immediately forward of the engine room?ģ749. Do you know which stokehold that would be?ģ748. Yes, I assisted to open them as far as we could forward.ģ747.

titanic boiler room flooding

Raymond Asquith.) Did you open the watertight doors?

titanic boiler room flooding

( The Commissioner.) By a pump what is the meaning of that?ģ745. One leading from the engine room to the stokehold was lifted up high enough by hand to let us get underneath.ģ744. As I understand it the watertight doors had been closed from the bridge? The watertight doors or watertight compartments.ģ740. The next order we got was to get out of the engine room and into the stokehold and open the doors. Did you receive any orders from the engineer? How soon after the ship struck was that done?ģ737. Was anything done about the watertight compartments?ģ736. They rushed to their stations, the pumps and valves, I understand.ģ734. Who else was in the engine room? Were there a number of engineers there?ģ732. Then did they stop the boat after that?ģ730. And did they go on again after that?ģ729. For how long did they go slow astern?ģ727. How long were they stopped for before they began to go slow astern?ģ724. Did they continue stopped or did they go on again after that?ģ723. Was that immediately after you felt the shock or some little time after?ģ722. Was anything done to the engines? Did they stop or did they go on?ģ721. Then a few seconds after that you felt a slight shock?ģ720. What was the order given by the telegraph?ģ719. Can you say at all how long before she struck that was?ģ718. And shortly before that had the telegraph rung?ģ717. Did you feel the shock when the ship struck?ģ716. I belonged to the upper section, but the upper section of boilers was not lit up, and they sent us to the engine room to assist in cleaning the gear.ģ715. What were you doing there? What were your duties there? In the engine room where the main engines are.ģ714. I have never been down below before it was my first trip down below.ģ713. That is where I understand I was - in the engine room. I see on the plan immediately after the last boiler there is a compartment marked " Reciprocating engine." Is that where you were? Were you on duty in the engine room on the night of the accident?ģ711. I suppose your duties as a trimmer would be in the engine room?ģ710. You were a trimmer on the " Titanic," were you not?ģ709. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry Day 5 Testimony of Thomas P.












Titanic boiler room flooding