Second Class stateroom on the 'Olympic' (1911)<br><p>Cabin interior on the passenger liner 'Olympic' (1911) showing a stateroom in Second Class accommodation on the starboard side of the Upper Deck (E Deck); it is numbered E89. This is the inner cabin of a tandem arrangement; the narrow alleyway providing access to a porthole is in the far corner. The outer cabin of this pair appears in negative G10780.
</p><p>The principle of the 'tandem cabin' originated in the design of accommodation on a vessel owned by the Bibby Steamship Co Ltd. For this reason the term 'Bibby cabin' was also used.<br></p>
Second Class stateroom on the 'Olympic' (1911)
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Bedford Lemere &amp; Co</div>
1914<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1914-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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