Bulkhead Drills

[Kareen Healey]

Hello,
I read the testimony of Captain James Henry Moore, the skipper of the "MOUNT TEMPLE" who gave testimony at the British Inquiry, and on question number 9346 Lord Mersey asked him " Do you have bulkheads drills ?" and the answer was " We have no doors in our bulkheads. We have no doors in them except in the engine room in the tunnels. There are two watertight doors there".

I would like to know what were those drills ? With boats it is not difficult to know what these drills were, but with bulkheads... ??

Thanks.

 

[TimTurner]

I don't know what Lord Mersey is asking, but Capt Moore is talking about holes "drilled" through the watertight bulkhead. Not practice "drills".

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

I would like to know what were those drills ?

The WTDs at tank top level (Boiler & Engine rooms) were closed automatically from the bridge.
The other doors like on E Deck would have been closed and opened by the stewards. According to company rules this was done every day except Sunday during inspection at 10:30 a.m.

I have try to give a overview of the different drills in this research article.

The forgotten drills aboard Titanic

Were the lifeboats on the Titanic ever tested and her crew properly trained to lower them?

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org