[Zeke]

I understand that the Titanic coal shovelers worked in short rotating shifts. I think there were 4 at at time stoking 2 boilers. Must have been similar on the Queen Mary.

An odd fact is that I worked on the conversion of the QM in 1970 after 2 years of work had already been done. I was involved with finishes inside at various places like first class cabins. IOW, a painter. I saw a LOT of the ship during lunch actually running to different destinations in order to be back at my job in 30 minutes. I saw amazing places like rope and chain lockers. I climbed to the crow's nest one day. I never found the one engine left out of 4 that were there originally. The thing was too big. 1/4 mile long.