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Out of the Titanic tragedy, better safety regulations were instituted for passenger ships. Ironically a fiction novel had been written in 1898, “Futility”, that paralleled the Titanic disaster. The book in the ship was called the Titan, and was sunk after hitting an iceberg. That’s the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania in the second photo. If the Titanic had survived, she and her sisters ships would have been outclassed by the Imperator class ships of the Hamburg-Amerika Line: Imperator, Vaterland and Bismark, that had 20 foot ceilings in their first class public rooms designed in high fashion by Charles Mewès (He had designed the interiors of the Ritz hotels, the Imperator class ships were his last commissions when he died in 1914) -Rj
More than likely, also chairs in couches in lounges were tethered to the floor with small cables. Nowadays ships have stabilizer systems, that bolting and tethering furniture to the floor is no longer required. -Rj
Out of the Titanic tragedy, better safety regulations were instituted for passenger ships.
ReplyDeleteIronically a fiction novel had been written in 1898, “Futility”, that paralleled the Titanic disaster.
The book in the ship was called the Titan, and was sunk after hitting an iceberg.
That’s the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania in the second photo.
If the Titanic had survived, she and her sisters ships would have been outclassed by the Imperator class ships of the Hamburg-Amerika Line: Imperator, Vaterland and Bismark, that had 20 foot ceilings in their first class public rooms designed in high fashion by Charles Mewès (He had designed the interiors of the Ritz hotels, the Imperator class ships were his last commissions when he died in 1914)
-Rj
Rj - You know so much. I'll delete the incorrect image. I should look up the Hamburg-Amerika Line.
DeleteI wonder if the bed in that Parlor Suite is attached to the floor.
ReplyDeleteMore than likely, also chairs in couches in lounges were tethered to the floor with small cables.
DeleteNowadays ships have stabilizer systems, that bolting and tethering furniture to the floor is no longer required.
-Rj