Coal bunkers

[TitanicNerd]

If Im not putting this in the right place, Im sorry. I just went Engine Stuff + Coal Bunker = Logic? Also, I looked up coal bunker on the search and nothing like this question came up.

Anyway, how the heck did the coal bunkers work? Was it just a giant storage room, full of coal, and whenever the stokers need coal they would get coal out of a little hole? Or was that "little hole" a dispenser with a button. What was it? How would they get the coal? What if the coal bunker ran out of coal?

Also, where the heck are the coal bunkers?

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Anyway, how the heck did the coal bunkers work? Was it just a giant storage room, full of coal, and whenever the stokers need coal they would get coal out

Yes, a large bunker going from the tank top up to G Deck level.

and whenever the stokers need coal they would get coal out of a little hole? Or was that "little hole" a dispenser with a button. What was it? How would they get the coal? What if the coal bunker ran out of coal?

Though the bunker doors. The Trimmers would take them out of the bunker, breaking the large lumps put them in a barrow and bring them to the funcases. There was always enough coal in the bunker. (If for some reason they run out of coal they would call other ships for help.)

Also, where the heck are the coal bunkers?

In the boiler rooms (on the forward and aft side).

 

[TitanicNerd]

I don't get the bunker doors part. So let's say a fireman needs coal. He would go to the bunker door and...?

 

[Dan Johnson]

The bunker is just a room that holds the coal. There are doors on them.

The fireman doesn't go to the bunker, it's not his job. A trimmer, another person, gets the coal and brings it to boiler.

 

[TitanicNerd]

Then why have doors in the boiler room if the trimmer gets them? I read somewhere in a exhibit that coal just comes out of the door naturally, and whenever some coal is gone more coal comes out.

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Then why have doors in the boiler room if the trimmer gets them?

That statement makes no sense.

I read somewhere in a exhibit that coal just comes out of the door naturally, and whenever some coal is gone more coal comes out.

That is not how it works. Trimmers had to take the coal out and had to look to take equal from each side.

 

[TitanicNerd]

Lol, sorry about that first message. It was late at night and I was tired.

Ok, so is this how it works? The trimmers get the coal out of the coal bunker door, chop it up into manageable pieces, and put it in a wheel barrow and bring it to the firemen?

 

[Mark Baber]

Moderator's hat on:

Lol, sorry about that first message. It was late at night and I was tired.

That's not an acceptable excuse for posting something like that. Please take more care, regardless of what time it is.

 

[TitanicNerd]

Ok Mark, I will be sure to follow that advice. Thank you.

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

Ok, so is this how it works? The trimmers get the coal out of the coal bunker door, chop it up into manageable pieces, and put it in a wheel barrow and bring it to the firemen?

At the start of the voyage the coal bunkers were full an the trimmers don't need to go far into the bunker and so to say could take them directly at the door. They of course had then to go into the bunker for the coal as Trimmer Cavell did when the collision took place.

 

[TitanicNerd]

Ok, this makes no sense. Please list how they worked in steps.

 

[Dan Johnson]

Nerd, what don't you understand?

The coal is stored in "bunkers." They are basically just a room and they do have doors on them. The trimmers take the coal from the bunkers, break it up, put it in a wheelbarrow, and cart it to the furnaces where the firemen work the fires. The trimmers also shift coal as necessary to keep the boat in "trim."

 

[TitanicNerd]

But why have the trimmers take the coal when the coal bunker is really close to the furnaces? Why can't the firemen stick their shovels through the door, shovel some out onto the ground, and keep shoveling.

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

But why have the trimmers take the coal when the coal bunker is really close to the furnaces? Why can't the firemen stick their shovels through the door, shovel some out onto the ground, and keep shoveling.

They are not close to the furnaces. The coal were large lumps which had to be break into smaller pieces.

 

[TitanicNerd]

How far away? 10 feet?