Ah, what a cruise we are on! Wait! It is a fake picture. Actually, we went to the 100th anniversary Titanic Exhibit at Union Station. We are trying to make an effort to go to things around town. They had a lot of artifacts actually recovered from the ship, but alas, not the Grand Staircase. This picture is the result of good digital imagery and software. They had a lot of posters explaining the building of the ship, the voyage, and the recovery efforts. I think that we viewed the exhibit a little differently than we would have before we started cruising.
The Titanic had a 'poop deck' and while I have always heard that term, the ships that I have been on did not have one, nor did I know exactly why it was called the 'poop deck'. Ray guessed that maybe it was the deck where the animals were and the poop was shoveled off of this deck into the ocean. Wikipedia set me straight with this explanation:
"In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or "aft", part of the superstructure of a ship. The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. Thus the poop deck is technically a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or "after" cabin, also known as the "poop cabin". In sailing ships, with the helmsman at the stern, an elevated position was ideal for both navigation and observation of the crew and sails."
And now you know more than you probably knew five minutes ago!
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