Titanic These accurately sized and highly detailed model cranes represent the large, conspicuous, Stothert & Pitt Ltd. cargo and baggage handling cranes of many merchant steamers such as Olympic class White Star liners RMS Titanic , RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic. Titanic and Olympic were equipped with eight electric cargo and baggage handling cranes made by Stothert and Pitt, Ltd. of Bath. Six of the cranes were rated for 50 cwt (2.5 tons). Two each of these were located on the forward well deck, the aft well deck and the poop deck. Two additional cranes were rated for 30 cwt (1.5 tons). These two had smaller operator platforms more rectangular in shape than the platforms of the 2.5-ton cranes and were mounted on smaller diameter cylindrical handling rooms. These two 1.5-ton cranes were located on the A Deck Promenade, aft. Features :
Carefully scaled and detailed from careful study of drawings based on Harland and Wolf plans as well as photographs of cranes on RMS
Titanic
and RMS
Olympic
accurately shaped
accurately shaped and positioned equipment lockers
accurately sized, shaped and positioned rivet, bolt and electrical cable details.
operator platforms of the 2.5 ton cranes have a rounded, left, rear corner *
operator platforms of the 1.5-ton cranes are rectangular *
operator platforms are intentionally designed slightly thicker than scale in order to be 3D-printable. All other features are designed to-scale.