Titanic Question

[Dampfmann]

Well, my question isn't that big, rather it is about the movie Titanic. After all these years, I finally watched the movie. I suspect I was one of the only remaining folks yet to have seen the movie.

Can anyone shed any light on the steam engine depicted in the movie? Did they use scale models, computer simulation, and/or a full size replica? What happened to these props?

Thanks,

Martin

[pkastagehand]

I can't answer your questions, but I can set your mind at rest about being the last one to have watched the movie. I have not seen it. Probably won't go out of my way to see it. I guess if wife or son pick it for a video to watch some night I might sit in with them.

On the subject of steam I wish that some of the ships I've been inside of would have allowed visits to engine rooms. (Battleship New Jersey for one) Queen Mary in Long Beach does get you down there pretty close.

[Clover McKinley]

Close-up views of the triple expansion engines of the Jeremiah O'Brien were used in the making of the movie "Titanic."

I've spent a few minutes trying to find the old "Mail Stop" piece that told a little about it, but I haven't located it.

If you like, Google "Jeremiah O'Brien Titanic" (without the quote marks) -- the Internet once again may hold the answer!

Clover

[Victor Smagovic]

pkastagehand

here you go:
augustachronicle.com/stories/031698/fea_titanic.shtml

Vic

[Unka Jesse]

It ain't the Titanic engines, but if you want to see a beautiful steam engine at work in a ship, either beg, buy, borrow or steal yourself a copy of the movie "The San Pebbles". The small triple expansion engine in the movie is not a mock up, but is an actual engine that is running on air. Lots cooler that way and Steve McQueen would not get his fingers burned either.

BTW: The Filer and Stowell company built about 154 huge triples for use in WWII Liberty Ships. I don't know the HP of those engines but they were, judging from the size of them, about 1,200 hp. The four cylinder triple expansion engines of the battleship Texas at Houston are 1,500hp each and well worth the trip down to the engine room to see. Probably a lot of the F&S engines are at the bottom of the Atlantic due to Adolph's U-Boats.

Unka Jesse

[ED H]

I have posted this before, but it has been a while. This link will take you to a site about a 1:20 scale model of Titanic's port side engine, and some history and details of the full-scale ones. Here's the link-

http://titanic-model.com/db/db-03/hahn.html