Plating Titanic's hull

Plating Titanic's hull, 1910.

This photograph, taken on 5 August 1910, is slighty out of focus but it shows that by this date the shell plating of Titanic's hull (left) was well advanced.  Olympic’s shell plating  (right) had been completed. 

The wooden staging that clings to the sides of the ships allowed riveters and other shipyard men to work on the hulls of the huge vessels.  In the foreground there is a stockyard for steel hull plates.