R.M.S. Titanic
Plan Sheet Descriptions
This 9 sheet set of plans depicts R.M.S. Titanic. Actual full size sheets are in 1/144 scale and are 3 ft. wide and 7-10 ft. long depending on the plan.
Titanic 1 – Plan Ordering Code TI1 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet is a drawing of the full starboard profile of the ship. Frame locations are indicated. New! Hydraulic riveting of the hull is now included in this drawing.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Titanic 2 – Plan Ordering Code TI2 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet is a drawing of the full port profile of the ship. Frame locations are indicated. Rigging details are shown. Hydraulic riveting on the hull is shown.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Titanic 3 – Plan Ordering Code TI3 – Price Per Sheet $38.00 USD
This plan sheet has drawings of four views of the ship: overhead (plan) view, forward view, aft view, underbody view.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Titanic 4 – Plan Ordering Code TI4 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet has a map of the locations of all the visible ventilators. It also has individual multi-view drawings of each ventilator.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Titanic 5 – Plan Ordering Code TI5 - Price Per Sheet $38.00 USD
This plan sheet has a map of deck equipment. It also includes multi-view drawings of the individual deck equipment items.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Titanic 6 – Plan Ordering Code TI6 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet has drawings of the Boat Deck deckhouses showing exterior bulkhead, window, and door locations. It also has a plan of “A” Deck with the same format as the Boat Deck drawings.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Titanic 7 – Plan Ordering Code TI7 - Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet has plans of the “B” Deck deckhouses, showing exterior bulkhead, window, and door locations. It also includes drawings of the forward well deck, aft well deck and docking bridge.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Titanic 8 – Plan Ordering Code TI8 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet has three separate drawings which comprise the hull contour lines. Included are the body plan, sheer plan, and half breadth plan.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Titanic 9 – Plan Ordering Code TI9 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet is a drawing of the shell plate expansion. This drawing has never been found among the Titanic drawings. It was created using the Olympic framing plan and the Olympic shell plating plan. The plan is of constant scale both vertically and horizontally. All hull plates on the starboard side can be visualized in this expansion. This plan will help the modeler in plating the hull.
Special Note: It should be noted that the shape of individual plates cannot be derived directly from the shell plating expansion. The shell plating expansion shows the shape of plates in the x and y dimensions. On the ship there is also curvature in the z dimension. The shell plating expansion is at best a general guide to the individual plate shape. The modeler will need to develop the true shape of individual plates directly on the ship. The advantages of this drawing are that it shows all the seams, butts and doubling in one drawing. As an aid to the modeler, notations have been added which show how an individual plate or strake is overlapped or overlaps those adjacent to it.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
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Addenda
From time to time information comes to light which requires that one or more of the plan sheets be changed. This section will display changes which are more than merely minor drafting errors. All changes will be made to the plan sheets from the date of the change noted here forward.
1. Date of change: 05/20/2011
Plan sheets affected: TI3, TI5
Nature of change: Recent evidence has come to light from the Titanic wreck which shows an unidentified object on the aft inboard aspect of the port B deck #4 hatch. This object had been seen for some time in later photos of Olympic. After this wreck discovery, early Olympic photos showed the same object. The quality of the photos is not good enough to show all the details of the object. I have added it to the plans and have interpreted the photos as best I could. If better photos surface I will again update the drawings. The function of this object is not known at present.
Drawing of the location of the object near the port side #4 hatch
Multi-view drawing of object
photo of object (see arrow) on Olympic
2. Date of change: 8/29/2011
Plan sheet affected: TI6
Nature of change: This is a minor change. The bulkhead lamp position on the starboard side of the first class entrance on the boat deck has been moved aft. The Titanic photo of Jacques Futrelle shows that the lamp was not in the position previously drawn. The change is shown below.
3. Date of change: 9/19/2011
Plan sheets affected: TI3, TI4, TI5, TI6
Nature of change:
Forward of Funnels 1, 2, and 3 on the port side is an access hatch to the fidley vents. Recent study of archival and wreck photos have led me to alter the size and position of these hatches. The new positions which are identical for all three boiler casings is shown in the drawing below.
4. Date of Change: 11/20/2011
Plan Sheets affected: TI1, TI2, TI6
Nature of Change:
Recent evidence has been discovered which may clarify our understanding of Titanic’s wheelhouse. The evidence is a photo of Olympic’s wheelhouse in 1915. This configuration represents changes which were made in Olympic’s 1912/13 refit. These modifications changed Olympic’s officer’s quarters and wheelhouse to a configuration much like Titanic’s. The aforementioned photo is shown below.
What we see is that the wheelhouse door is located aft very close to the officers’ quarters forward bulkhead. We also see the incorporation of a circular window in the door which she did not previously have before her refit. A photo still taken from a 1920′s film of Olympic (below) shows that the side window forward of the door is further aft than originally believed because it isn’t visible in this photo.
It appears that the window would be located just forward of where the door would open against the bulkhead. The storm rail could not encroach aft on the bulkhead where the door opened. Most likely the forward extent of the rail extends only to the forward extent of the the window since the forward extent of it is not seen in the 1920′s Olympic photo. Re-examination of the 1920′s Olympic photo and the only known photo which shows Titanic’s wheelhouse (below) indicates that the forward corners of the wheelhouse were not the large 12 inch radius corners seen in some Olympic deck plans.
While the corners aren’t sharp, they appear to have not much more than a 1 inch corner radius.
The drawings below show the previous and revised drawings of wheehouse and its associated structures which have been modified by better evidence.
It is my opinion that the revised arrangement shown above more closely represents the actual arrangement than the earlier version. Since we don’t, and probably won’t, have an actual photo of the area on Titanic, about the best we can do is make educated extrapolations from Olympic evidence. It is also true that nothing in the new evidence can absolutely rule out other versions of this area for Titanic. But I do believe the recent evidence brings us closer to the truth.