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The Orlop deck in this portion of the ship was refrigerated
storage for everything from wine to flowers to bacon. A stores lift, or
freight elevator, ran from the Orlop in the upper half of the drawing to
the pantry in the 1st/2nd class galley on D-deck. The four big electric
dynamos in this compartment provided the power for Titanic. The turbine
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The four electric generators were steam powered. The 4 generators
could produce 400kw each at a collective output of 16,000 amps at 100 volts.
The simple version is that the Titanic could power a good-sized city.
After the collision, it was necessary to keep enough boilers active to service
the generators to keep the lights on as long as possible. H&W
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The switch room was the power control room and sat on the
Orlop deck on the fore end of the generator room. Auxiliary generators sit
on D-deck just aft of the turbine uptake in the event the generator compartment
flooded in a collision, but the auxiliary generators could barely handle
emergency lighting. H&W photo |