Ive noticed in some pictures of the Britannic (as a hospital ship) that there was a huge davit on the starboard side but their is one picture with this davit on her portside. Why is that?
Since there was no time to install all the huge gantry davits when the ship was requisitioned by the Admiralty, the ship builders chose to obtain the maximum lifeboat capacity using the more conventional Wellin davits (those also present on Titanic) and the original lifeboat configuration -with 4 pairs of gantry davits- remained incomplete.That’s why you see a single gantry davit near the first funnel and no gantry davits near the stern. The single gantry davit was always on the starboard side.Perhaps the photo in question was reversed.
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