Titanic Exhibit: Part 2 of 3

Continuing a visit to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in Orlando, Florida.

From left: a tobacco spittoon, a mustard bottle, a ceramic jug, probably once containing olive oil, and a chamber pot.

A clarinet and sheet music recovered from the wreck.

Recreation of a first class suite.

First class table settings recovered from the wreck, clockwise from bottom left: a vintage napkin ring is shown next to a napkin ring from the wreck deteriorating due to corrosion, crystal candy dish and carafe, bouillon cup and saucer, fork and teaspoon, a special service plate, and a demitasse cup.

Recovered wine bottles and a champagne bottle.  Note there is still champagne in the bottle.

Second class table settings include a milk pitcher and assorted china.

Third class table settings include a soup bowl, cup, copper sugar bowl, and a fruit bowl.

More recovered objects include, clockwise from left, a first class marble sink fragment with water faucet and waste valve, chandelier collar and wood support,  bed frame fragments, and a furniture foot.

This decorative garland from the Grand Staircase in First Class was once covered with gold leaf.

A copper cherub that once held a light fixture from the Aft Grand Staircase.

A third class passageway.

Some of the doors to the first and second class areas were gated off.

The sound of the engines is very loud in the hold where unneeded luggage, cargo, and a car being shipped to the United States could be found.  Note the watertight door raised over the passage at right.

Plates with a Freesia Pattern, part of a larger cargo shipment.

The watertight door leads through one of the fifteen bulkheads splitting the ship into 16-water tight compartments.  The idea being the doors would seal off the compartments with the ship being able to float with four of the compartments flooded.  Unfortunately, the iceberg punctured five compartments leading to the slow sinking of the ship.

Titanic had 29 boilers containing 159 individual furnaces fed daily around the clock with over 600 tonnes of coal a day by 159 stokers to keep the Titanic’s engines powered in its journey across the Atlantic.

Speaking Tube recovered from the Aft Docking Bridge.

End of Part 2 of 3 of the Titanic Exhibit.

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