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I wonder if the davits will be fully operational or the lifeboats just slung in them for display.
quote:Originally posted by Waynaro:Its 1959 all-over again! SS ROTTERDAM is in her final stages of the outfit and getting ready for sea trials!
She has more lifeboats in her davits in the picture you added !
quote:Originally posted by Neil Whitmore ( Bob ex P&O Cruises):She has more lifeboats in her davits in the picture you added !
Greetings Ben.
quote:Originally posted by Maasdam:They are also repainting here hull starting on the bow area. When i saw here last week Sunday.Greetings Ben.
That hull has had more attention in the last 3-4 years than Queen Mary's has had in decades!! She looks magnificent!
quote:Originally posted by Neil Whitmore ( Bob ex P&O Cruises):Many thanks for some great pictures.I wonder if the davits will be fully operational or the lifeboats just slung in them for display.
Form looking at the pictures, looks like there permently being attached. form the pictues of the davits there is no wire rope cable going from a winch to the liftings hooks. Having installed many a davit over the years those would normily be installed before placing of the boats. this will save a lot of maintance, grease and rust stiains on the davits
quote:Originally posted by NAL:The twin uptakes appear to be painted gray in the photos. Is that only temporary? During all the trips I have taken on SS ROTTERDAM, I do not remember any other color than white.
The Rotterdam is painted in the correct special house style only painted on the Rotterdam.
From 1959 until 1973 The Grey house color years the uptakes and king posts where Grey. The hull painted Grey white yellow/gold ribbon, the lifeboats painted in the first year boats yellow, but in 1960 the boats received and green white green ribbon resembling the funnel colors found on Rotterdam fleet mates. Inn 1966 the hull ribbon and the life boats green white green ribbon where dropped fore economical reasons.
After the Rotterdam received here midnight blue hull inn 1973, the uptakes and king pots where painted white.
[ 12-15-2008: Message edited by: Maasdam ]
Having been aboard during the very first year, I can confirm that the mast and the uptakes are now painted in the original dove grey.
Willem
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