Alexey Shirokoff
Member
I am very much interested by life and labour of Black gang on Titanic. Please, help me with the answers to the following questions. Thank you!
1. It is known about Black gang monthly rates. But how there was an account, upon trip completion or on daily basis? Whether they could be discharge after completed trip?
2. With than washed off a coal dust and soot?
3. Whether Black Gang could be bought something onboard?
4. Toilet during shift — simple bucket in boiler room?
5. Worked in shifts, whether but were fixed for certain stokehold/boiler room or varied?
6. How trimmers got inside of upper bunkers? If by emergency gangways from boiler rooms, how in this case they got wheelbarrows and shovels in the upper bunkers?
7. If steam was required to declare preparation for 18-24 hours, who initial fire the boilers, and supported pressure in them on April 9, if the most crew should arrive aboard only by 6:00 on April 10? How these temporary shifts were organized? By photos on exit from Southampton of a plentyful black smoke from funnels it is not visible. Weak smoke goes only from the third and second funnels, hence, on a way to Cherbourg the separate boilers of boiler rooms ## 1-2 (third funnel worked only, the smoke is stronger) and # 3 (second funnel, the smoke is weaker). With pass of Isle of Wight the appreciable smoke goes from the first funnel (boiler rooms ## 5-6). On stop in Queenstown separate boiler of boiler rooms ## 5-6 also worked, on exit from Queenstown — the separate boiler of boiler rooms # 1-4 were connected.
8. Is the Black gang shifts were prolonged because of time changes? The Black gang shifts did not coincide with officers watches on the bridge.
9. It is known about distribution of duties and watches for second engineers and their assistants. How were distributed watches and duties for other engineers?
1. It is known about Black gang monthly rates. But how there was an account, upon trip completion or on daily basis? Whether they could be discharge after completed trip?
2. With than washed off a coal dust and soot?
3. Whether Black Gang could be bought something onboard?
4. Toilet during shift — simple bucket in boiler room?
5. Worked in shifts, whether but were fixed for certain stokehold/boiler room or varied?
6. How trimmers got inside of upper bunkers? If by emergency gangways from boiler rooms, how in this case they got wheelbarrows and shovels in the upper bunkers?
7. If steam was required to declare preparation for 18-24 hours, who initial fire the boilers, and supported pressure in them on April 9, if the most crew should arrive aboard only by 6:00 on April 10? How these temporary shifts were organized? By photos on exit from Southampton of a plentyful black smoke from funnels it is not visible. Weak smoke goes only from the third and second funnels, hence, on a way to Cherbourg the separate boilers of boiler rooms ## 1-2 (third funnel worked only, the smoke is stronger) and # 3 (second funnel, the smoke is weaker). With pass of Isle of Wight the appreciable smoke goes from the first funnel (boiler rooms ## 5-6). On stop in Queenstown separate boiler of boiler rooms ## 5-6 also worked, on exit from Queenstown — the separate boiler of boiler rooms # 1-4 were connected.
8. Is the Black gang shifts were prolonged because of time changes? The Black gang shifts did not coincide with officers watches on the bridge.
9. It is known about distribution of duties and watches for second engineers and their assistants. How were distributed watches and duties for other engineers?
