Titanic's Pumps
Drawing Fire
together, running all at once. Where any pumps used during Titanic's
sinking?
Bill Wooten
John M. Feeney
Hi, Bill!
I believe -- though I may be mistaken -- that you can probably ferret
this out fairly easily from the Inquiry Reports (and/or transcripts)
available at the Titanic Inquiry Project:
http://www.titanicinquiry.org/
All you should need to do is search on "pump".
Cheers!
John M. Feeney
(schla...@mindspring.com)
39°50'10"N, 74°44'54"W
Tom Pappas
The general arrangement of piping was designed to that it was possible to
pump from any flooded comparment by two independent systems of 10-inch mains
having cross connections between them. These were controlled from above by
rods and wheels led to the level of the bulkhead deck. By these it was
possible to isolate any flooded space, together with any suctions in it. If
any of these should happen accidentally to be left open, and consequently
out of reach, it could be shut off from the main by the wheel on the
bulkhead deck. This arrangement was specially submitted to the Board of
Trade and approved by them.
The double bottom of the vessel was divided by 17 transverse water-tight
divisions, including those bounding the fore and aft peaks, and again
subdivided by a center fore-and-aft bulkhead, and two longitudinal
bulkheads, into 46 compartments. Fourteen of these compartments had 8-inch
suctions, 23 had 6-inch suctions, and 3 had 5-inch suctions connected to the
10-inch ballast main suction; 6 compartments were used exclusively for fresh
water.
The following bilge suctions were provided for dealing with water, above
the double bottom, viz., in No. 1 hold two 3 1/2-inch suctions, No.2 hold
two 3 1/2-inch and 2 3-inch suctions, bunker hold, two 3 1/2-inch and two
3-inch suctions.
The valves in connection with the forward bilge and ballast suctions were
placed in the firemen's passage, the water-tight pipe tunnel extending from
No. 6 boiler room to the after end of No. 1 hold. In this tunnel, in
addition to two 3-inch bilge suctions, one at each end, there was a special
3 1/2-inch suction with valve rod led up to the lower deck above the load
line, so as always to have been accessible should the tunnel be flooded
accidentally.
In No. 6 boiler room there were three 3 1/2-inch, one 4 1/2-inch, and two
3-inch suctions.
Bilge and ballast pumps.
The ship was also fitted with the following pumps: Five ballast and bilge
pumps, each capable of discharging 250 tons of water per hour; three bilge
pumps, each of 150 tons per hour capacity.
One ash ejector (pump?) was placed in each of the large boiler compartments
to work the ash ejectors, and to circulate or feed the boilers as required.
This pump was also connected to the bilges, except in the case of three of
the boiler rooms, where three of the ballast and bilge pumps were placed.
The pumps in each case had direct bilge suctions as well as a connection to
the main bilge pipe so that each boiler room might be independent.
--
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"But this script can't sink!"
"She is made of irony, sir. She can, and she will."
"Drawing Fire" <fivehead...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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John M. Feeney
>PUMPING ARRANGEMENTS.
...
Hey there, Tom!
Is that an extract from somewhere, or just something you put
together yourself? Can you point me to the source, if it's external?
Thanks!
Regards,
John M. Feeney
(schla...@mindspring.com)
"The Pine Barrens", NJ USA
Drawing Fire
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:29:02 -0700, "Tom Pappas" <t...@pcslink.com>
wrote:
>PUMPING ARRANGEMENTS.
Tom Pappas
--
Half-baked Titanic theories galore at
http://www.pcslink.com/~tom/titanic
Great circle computer: /distance.html
SNAME Report: /titanic25.pdf
NIST Report: /metallurgy.pdf
"But this script can't sink!"
"She is made of irony, sir. She can, and she will."
"John M. Feeney" <schla...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> "Tom Pappas" <t...@pcslink.com> wrote:
>
> >PUMPING ARRANGEMENTS.
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It's also available on line at
http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTReport/BotRep.htm.
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