I’m a retired sailor. My department was Engineering.
I’ve worked on (my) ships while in shipyards and for a few years I was a shipyard QA Inspector.
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The forward section of A deck was different between Titanic and Olympic.
It’s easy to see in photos that the one at the bottom is in fact the original Titanic.
An intelligent rational person would need no more information.
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But this is “metabunk” so here are my thoughts on some of this ‘swap-ships’ nonsense….
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To avoid confusion: To most sailors (at least where I’m from) screws are for ships and propellers (or props) are for boats. When I say screw I mean the big things aft of the shafts with blades on them – not fasteners you use screwdrivers for.
While I’m at it a boat is a water vessel small enough to carry on a ship. (That doesn’t imply boats are small. I have seen as many as three sea-going tugboats loaded onto one ship.) Of course things like barges or floating dry-docks don’t count as ships or boats.
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The 400 vs 401 dilemma. – For the screws and other things as well.
It’s not the least bit unusual for parts originally ordered for one ship to end up in another ship.
If they urgently need a part for ship A and it’s in the warehouse for ship B they will go to the B warehouse ... Read even more
