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alan.gamblin

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Is the upper superstructure being slowly returned to white or is it 2 shades of grey??

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Alan G.
 

harry t.

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I believe the funnels had been painted Cunard colours just prior, but retained the grey for another few months
 

jaguar06

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There appears to be an enclosed structure above the wheelhouse that is not as built and that was removed later. What is that?
 

harry t.

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the powers that be likely decided to forgo convention while trooping and allow a canvas dodger (windbreaker) to be rigged around the monkey island hand rails from at least 1942 onwards. This, in addition to the weather boards surrounding the compass binnacle. There's always a gale blowing up there, at 30 knots, when taking azimuths or tracking the Aurora (pre satillites,i.e, until after they discovered what caused it)) etc.
 

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