One, Two and Three Deck corridors

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

To complement the thread already devoted to the Four and Five Deck corridors :

https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,2522.0.html

I took a video on the Two Deck alleyway in September (please crane your necks to view it!) :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/3119448135/

At the time, I was following the funnel upwards through all the decks and noticing how the alleyway space devoted to the funnel grew smaller as it rose up. On Two Deck, there was this lovely panel of woodwork undisturbed by any doors or other openings.

Now, I have been asked what wood this is. I imagine it is the same wood as that used in some of the Bannenberg Rooms... but which is it?

Flagship, can you help, please?

[PaulInuk]

deck one that was a  long walk

[Graham Taylor]

deck one that was a  long walk

Not really Paul. Not unless you were walking through from the fo'c'sle, along through the corridor of the Hotel Officers' accommodation and into the passenger space on that deck, which just started just forward of C stairway. The longest walk through passenger accommodation was down on 3 deck, which started quite some way forward of A stairway.

[Rob Lightbody]

Here are a couple of videos I've uplopaded today walking along 3 deck.

aft to forward, full length, port side -

and from forward to our cabin 3093 amidships, starboard

[Adam Hodson]

Now, I have been asked what wood this is. I imagine it is the same wood as that used in some of the Bannenberg Rooms... but which is it?

Does anybody know what wood it is? I am intrigued.

[Rob Lightbody]

Does anybody know what wood it is? I am intrigued.

Michael will know, I'm sure, and I suspect its also in the VADS publication, or one of the other QE2 books, I just don't have time to dig through them just now!

[Rob Lightbody]

Does anybody know what wood it is? I am intrigued.

I found this little nugget

None was given higher priority than safety. The ship is practically clad in asbestos—over 2,000,000 square feet of it. Corridors with walls of what appear to be beautifully grained solid wood, are made of veneer 1/32nd of an inch thick on asbestos board.

[June Ingram]

Thank you, Rob, for this information.

[Adam Hodson]

Thanks for reminding me about VADS Rob. It says that the wood in the corridors is Cedar Veneer.

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Thanks for reminding me about VADS Rob. It says that the wood in the corridors is Cedar Veneer.

Thank you very much, Adam -- and Rob too, for this unexpected information. I would just love to wander around the ship again, with all the new information gathered in the Forum, and take it all in once more...

[Adam Hodson]

There is another topic on this but I think that the wood panelling was a mixture of veneer and asbestos is different layers.


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[Adam Hodson]

It was called Marinite and more can be found here:  https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php?topic=658


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[alfredop]

im surprised they used any wood on board, even in veneers, reminds me of queen Mary's corridors, I wish wood was used more often in ships