Office by Alex Penny
Hi I'm Will, I'm nineteen years old and I've been interested in the Titanic since I saw the 1997 film Titanic, when I was four years old. I decided to make a Tumblr and post stuff about the Titanic. I hope to join the Titanic Historical Society someday.
I mean, seeing as how every single 4-funneled liner must be Titanic. Can you guess which one is actually Titanic? If you know nothing about Titanic, the answer may surprise you.
None of these are Titanic.
Finally, I’m almost done with this model I’ve been building of Titanic’s First Class Verandah Cafe and Palm Court. I’m making it for a game modification called ‘The Mafia Titanic Mod’. The only thing I have left to do is the vines that grew on the trellises.
The Mafia Titanic Mod is being made as a freely-downloadable modifcation or add-on for the PC game ‘Mafia: City of Lost Heaven’. The mod will feature a full recreation of Titanic’s exterior and will also include large areas of the ship’s interiors, such as all the first class public rooms including the Grand staircase, second and third class areas, engine rooms, and elsewhere. The mod is being created by a team of talented modelers and modders, with Robin Bongaarts (AKA - MrRobville) as the mod creator, writer, and main modeler, and myself doing some of the modeling, which up to now has included the First Class Dining Saloon, the Turkish Bath Cooling Room, the First Class Smoke Room, and now the Verandah Cafe and Palm Court, as well as elements of the Grand Staircase. The project has had some good luck recently with the addition of a knowledgeable game modder, and it is looking up to be a pretty amazing development. The Mafia Titanic Mod is still a work in progress. It may take some time yet to complete, and is not yet available for download.
You can find out more about The Mafia Titanic Mod at the following sites:
MTM Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mafia-Titanic-Mod/222312544516846
MTM ModDB: http://www.moddb.com/mods/mafia-titanic-mod
MrRobville’s Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/mrrobville/videos
Official MTM page on MrRobville’s site: http://www.mrrobville.com/titanic.html
For a similar but more extensive and detailed game project, ‘Titanic: Honor and Glory’, which I’m also working on, visit these sites as well:
T:H&G Tumblr: http://titanic-honor-and-glory.tumblr.com/
T:H&G Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TitanicHonorandGlory
T:H&G Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/FourFunnelsEnt
My 3D model of Titanic’s First Class Verandah Cafe and Palm Court.
It took me forever to make, mostly due to procrastination and having to work on this other project, but I finally finished it. I made it for a game modification/add-on called ‘The Mafia Titanic Mod’, which you can find out more about by clicking here.
Renders of the First Class Enquiry and Purser’s Office aboard the Titanic. This area is currently being placed in-game, and it will serve as an important area in Titanic: Honor and Glory’s story.
- Images 1-2: Enquiry Office. The Enquiry Office was located on C Deck adjacent to the First Class Entrance or “Grand Staircase”. Like the reception desk at a large hotel would, it is through this office that first class passengers conducted much of their onboard business, including the submission of various requests, the purchase of postage stamps and train tickets, hiring of motorcars at ports of call, and the sending and receiving of telegrams. There was a post box for passengers to drop letters in, and just outside the office were three queue dividers and a brochure rack.
- Image 3: Telegram tube. The brass object in the corner of the wall was a pneumatic tube that ran between the Enquiry Office on C Deck and the Marconi Office on the Boat Deck. It was much like the pneumatic tubes you see at modern banks, except it was used to send telegrams between the two offices. A first class passenger could fill in a telegram form at the front desk (paying by the letter), and the staff would put it into the tube, sending it quickly to the Marconi Office. There, a wireless operator would transmit the message in Morse Code to wherever it was supposed to go. For incoming messages for passengers, the wireless operator would receive the message in Morse Code, jot it down on a telegram, and put that into the tube, sending it to the Enquiry Office. From there, the telegram would be delivered to the recipient.
- Image 4: Safe. In the Enquiry Office was also a large safe, likely manufactured by Ratner. If first class passengers had money or other valuables they did not wish to keep in their staterooms or carry with them, they could check them into the Enquiry Office to be locked in the safe during the voyage.
- Images 5-6: Purser’s Office. Adjacent to the Enquiry Office was the Purser’s Office. Both offices operated essentially as one, with the Enquiry Office acting as an extension of the Purser’s Office. The Chief Purser was in charge of the ship’s general administration, and was essentially the onboard business manager, accountant, and chief clerk. Along with his assistants, he handled the filling in of freight and passenger manifests and other bookkeeping matters. The Chief Purser’s other responsibilities included the answering of passengers’ questions and concerns, the resolution of any problems they may have, and the prompt and satisfactory fulfillment of any passengers’ unusual requests. The Chief Purser had to be familiar with the entire ship and everyone on it, and as a result of his duties was probably the second most well-known person on the ship, after the Captain. The Chief Purser aboard the Titanic was Hugh R.W. McElroy.
Modeled by Matthew DeWinkeleer
Rendered by Kyle Hudak
Information from Titanic: The Ship Magnificent, Vol.1Visit Titanic: Honor and Glory on Tumblr, Facebook, and Youtube for more.
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People awaiting the arrival of the Carpathia and the Titanic survivors in New York.
Artist Nele Azevedo created a tribute in Belfast to the Titanic victims by creating 1,517 figures out of ice, each representing someone who died, which were then placed on the steps in Custom House Square and left to melt as part of many commemorations of the centenary of the Titanic’s sinking.
~And assignment for my Storyboard I class where we had to create a tv/web series. So I made a series about my inspiration, TITANIC. (not the movie) This would be a Web/YouTube animated series about different passengers/crew accounts from the RMS TITANIC. Either it would be an account from a 1st class passenger or a crew member, it will let you explore their lives before the sail, during the sinking, and life beyond the event. Each episode will be 4-7 minutes long. Each different passenger story are stand alone episodes. But when you watch all the episodes all together, they are inner connected. The first episode is about Eva Hart and her life after TITANIC.
The First Class Pantry aboard RMS Olympic, Titanic’s sister-ship.
Located on D-Deck immediately aft of the First Class Dining Saloon, the First Class Pantry was part of the overall food preparation facilities or galleys for first and second class, but while the galley itself was where food was cooked, the pantry was where the cooked food was taken to be placed on plates and such for any further dressing and to be stored and kept warm until it was served. On Titanic this room would have looked the same.
“When anyone asks how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog the like, but in all my experience, I have never been in any accident of any sort worth speaking about. …… I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. You see, I am not very good material for a story”
-Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic
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Joseph Bruce Ismay was born in Crosby, near Liverpool, Lancashire in 1862 and was the son of the owner of the White Star Line and with is fathers death in 1899 Ismay became Managing Director of White Star Line. He had already been made a partner of Ismay, Imrie and co. in 1891. In 1901 White Star Line joined International Mercantile Marine Company under John Pierpoint Morgan.
In 1907 Ismay and Morgan with their wives had dinner together where they planned the idea of 3 luxurious ships, 2 created side by side with a 3rd to follow. These were be the most luxurious ocean liners on the sea but would carry lots of 3rd class passengers, because that would be their biggest money earner. The we made to rival the Cunard Liners Lusitania and Mauretania for luxury instead of speed.
Ismay felt the collision with the iceberg, he left his cabin in his pyjamas and a dressing gown, later returning to wear more appropriate clothing. He was present when the Captain gathered the Senior Officers and Thomas Andrews an briefed them on the ships condition.
Ismay is reported to have helped women and children into the lifeboats before getting into collapsible C, one of the last 2 lifeboats to leave the ship. Ismay sat with his back to the sinking Titanic and when he boarded the Carpathia he remained in a cabin alone, only replying to necessary messages.
In the American and British inquiries serious condemned Ismay’s actions, however the British inquiry was a little less harsh. Ismay’s reputation was destroyed because he survived the sinking.
The Times (newspaper) published this obituary for J Bruce Ismay when he died in 1937 at 74 years of age:
[He was a man] ‘of striking personality and in any company arrested attention and dominated the scene. Those who knew him slightly found his personality overpowering and in consequence imagined him too be hard, but his friends knew this was but the outward veneer of a shy and highly sensitive nature, beneath which was hidden a depth of affection and understanding which is given to but few. Perhaps his outstanding characteristic was his deep feeling and sympathy for the ‘underdog’ and he was always anxious to help anyone in trouble. Another notable trait was an intense dislike of publicity which he would go to great lengths to avoid. In his youth he won many prizes in lawn-tennis tournaments; he also played association football, having a natural aptitude for games. He enjoyed shooting and fishing and became a first class shot and an expert fisherman. Perhaps the latter was his favourite sport and he spent many happy holidays fishing in Connemara’.
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Joseph Bruce Ismay was born in Crosby, near Liverpool, Lancashire in 1862 and was the son of the owner of the White Star Line and with is fathers death in 1899 Ismay became Managing Director of White Star Line. He had already been made a partner of Ismay, Imrie and co. in 1891. In 1901 White Star Line joined International Mercantile Marine Company under John Pierpoint Morgan.
In 1907 Ismay and Morgan with their wives had dinner together where they planned the idea of 3 luxurious ships, 2 created side by side with a 3rd to follow. These were be the most luxurious ocean liners on the sea but would carry lots of 3rd class passengers, because that would be their biggest money earner. The we made to rival the Cunard Liners Lusitania and Mauretania for luxury instead of speed.
Ismay felt the collision with the iceberg, he left his cabin in his pyjamas and a dressing gown, later returning to wear more appropriate clothing. He was present when the Captain gathered the Senior Officers and Thomas Andrews an briefed them on the ships condition.
Ismay is reported to have helped women and children into the lifeboats before getting into collapsible C, one of the last 2 lifeboats to leave the ship. Ismay sat with his back to the sinking Titanic and when he boarded the Carpathia he remained in a cabin alone, only replying to necessary messages.
In the American and British inquiries serious condemned Ismay’s actions, however the British inquiry was a little less harsh. Ismay’s reputation was destroyed because he survived the sinking.
The Times (newspaper) published this obituary for J Bruce Ismay when he died in 1937 at 74 years of age:
[He was a man] ‘of striking personality and in any company arrested attention and dominated the scene. Those who knew him slightly found his personality overpowering and in consequence imagined him too be hard, but his friends knew this was but the outward veneer of a shy and highly sensitive nature, beneath which was hidden a depth of affection and understanding which is given to but few. Perhaps his outstanding characteristic was his deep feeling and sympathy for the ‘underdog’ and he was always anxious to help anyone in trouble. Another notable trait was an intense dislike of publicity which he would go to great lengths to avoid. In his youth he won many prizes in lawn-tennis tournaments; he also played association football, having a natural aptitude for games. He enjoyed shooting and fishing and became a first class shot and an expert fisherman. Perhaps the latter was his favourite sport and he spent many happy holidays fishing in Connemara’.
Fredrick Fleet was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1887 to an absent father, his mother abandoned him in his early childhood. He spent his childhood moving between orphanages, foster homes and family members which most likely influenced him to take merchant navy training at just 12. Fleet ended up serving on RMS Oceanic as did Second Officer Lightoller and Fourth Officer Boxhall. From the Oceanic, Fleet signed onto the Titanic as a lookout at age 25.
Fleet, along with Reginald Lee, took the positions of lookouts at 10pm on the night of the sinking. It was Fleet who rang the bells to signify something ahead. He then rang down the the bridge to describe the problem. When answered he said “Iceberg right ahead” and received the reply “thank you”, then he and Lee had to wait to see if the action taken would be enough. Fleet saw the ice fall on deck, they though it had either been a slight hit or near miss, it did not seem serious. They were both relieved 20 minutes later, after the ship had come to a stop.
Fleet was assigned to lifeboat 6 by Second Officer Lightoller along with Quater-Master Hitchins, Fleet helped to load passengers onto the lifeboat before lowering. This was the first lifeboat to be lowered on the port side.
After the sinking, Fleet went on to work on RMS Olympic but found that the White Star Line found the surviving crew to be embarrassing reminders so he switched to the Union-Castle Line. He worked for Harland and Wolfe as a shipbuilder and then again for Union-Castle as a shore master-at-arms. In his later life he sold newspapers on street corners.
Fleet sadly committed suicide in 1965 when he was 77, after the death of his wife and been kicked out of the place he was living by the house owner, his brother-in-law.
