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The Crows Nest | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board The crows nest was still, sort of, attached My tape is of poor quality from age and wear, but it looks like the crows nest had "split?" in two and flattened, or the front rounded body had fallen away, leaving the aft portions of the crows nest still partially attached The mast appeared to be visible its entire length
We have no look-out glasses in the crows nest. - Encyclopedia Titanica All we want him to do is to strike the bells ” (B14293) He was referring to the bell in Titanic’s crow’s nest, which the lookouts were required to strike upon sighting an object: one gong of the bell called the Bridge Officer’s attention to something off the port bow, two gongs meant something off the starboard bow, and three gongs
Lookout in the Crows Nest - Encyclopedia Titanica I have looked at photographs of several ships - past and present - and the crow's don't appear to be very much higher than the bridge deck The lookouts in the crow's nest would not have had too much advantage in the distance they could see compared to those on the bridge However , the advantages of crow's nest have been explained to be
Lookouts : The Human Perspective - Encyclopedia Titanica From Forecastle 17 4 N Miles From Bridge 18 9 N Miles From Crows Nest 20 3 N Miles From the above it can be seen that the iceberg seen at night as a BLACK area, lacking the stars right down to the horizon that the rest of the horizon is showing, should have become increasingly dominant as the ship steamed toward it that fateful night
On Titanics Bridge - Encyclopedia Titanica The crow’s nest had about a 26-foot (7 9 meter) height advantage above the bridge, which meant that the lookouts could see about a mile and half (2 4 kilometers) farther Mounted to the mast directly above the crow’s nest was a 15-inch (38-cm) brass warning bell
Crows nest | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board It still seems a bit ludicrous that a ship so advanced for it's time that H W couldn't just add a simple roof cover to the crows nest The costs would have been minuscule The distraction of the elements is hardly something a lookout should have to think about Maybe it was a conscious decision to keep them from relaxing
Crows nest - Was it Really Possible to see the Iceberg? The British Inquiry asked Ernest Shackleton if icebergs were easier to detect from the crows nest He said: " from a height it is not so easily seen; it blends with the ocean if you are looking down at an angle like that If you are on the sea level it may loom up " "Better, the nearer you are to the waterline "
Crows Nest Telephone Key - Encyclopedia Titanica Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key" Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Graham Navy Type telephone, used on the crows nest, or the binoculars locker also on the crows nest, mentioned by lookout, Fleet, in his official enquiry
Question 3 Bells from the Crows Nest - Encyclopedia Titanica If we assume, which is also very possible (maybe even probable), that Hitchens's memory is a bit mixed up and the telegraph orders happened simultaneously with, or just after, the helm hard over order then it took 30 seconds for Murdoch to respond after the three gongs from the crows nest