Bizarre indeed!
I'm another one guilty of not reading from the beginning - looked at the pictures first TBH as I'm not someone who particularly understands all the technical stuff
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There's a lovely photo of her in the book on p307 that i do like.
My mum commissioned a local maritime artist to do a painting of Oriana years ago as a special present for my dad and my brother and i are trying to get him to do a version of that photo for her.
My dad died a few years ago and one of his wishes was to have some of his ashes scattered in Sydney because he loved it there so much from his time on Oriana. We had no idea where exactly he wanted that to happen other than somewhere on Circular Quay looking out to the harbour but we actually scattered them from the small headland at the left of the photo so it was a real shock, delight, teary moment when I first spotted it in the book.
Oh dear! a bit of an emotional ramble there about a ship close to my heart
Can't help with deck plans I'm afraid!
However not sure if
www.dockmuseum.org.uk could be worth a try?
Lots of Vickers archive stuff there - I know lots of their photographic archives ended up there amongst other things but they're also linked with the records office that holds lots of local interest / historical stuff too and can often do copies of original documents. I've got hold of a few bits on loan for school history projects from the Dock Museum and copies of some things from the Records office but not really sure what else is available.
Maybe they could point you in the right direction to get hold of copies if original shipyard copies are hard to come by?
The original Oriana model from Vickers has been on display in the local hospital for several years now and I always make a quick trip there to press the button on the case and watch her move if I'm visiting the hospital!
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