This is just a small section from one of the four cutaway views available. Unless you have naval experience it's hard to appreciate just how jam-packed an ocean going vessel actually is. These give you a good idea of the immensity of a ship's working spaces.
I would humbly suggest that a love of deckplans is one of the defining characteristics of gamers. In many ways a ship is just a floating dungeon, filled with potential adventure while being isolated enough to allow some control over story developments.
Being able to cross the ocean in a matter of hours is an amazing technological achievement. That said, seeing the luxurious appointments of a smoking room like this demonstrates that we gave something up in the process. Including the very idea of a room dedicated solely to smoking tobacco.
* Mr. Hockenbury actually sent this to me back in May. Somehow I managed to draft the post and then forget about it. My apologies to him for the delay.
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I am always a sucker for deck plans, be it ships, spaceships or airships. Don’t forget your posts of 2 Nov 2011 with tramps steamer plans http://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2011/11/tramp-steamer-plans.html and 6 Nov 2011 for airship plans http://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2011/11/lords-of-air.html and your 18 Mar 2012 Dornier Wal plans http://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2012/03/mountains-of-madness-project-update.html and don’t forget that Cthulhu has plans for you.
As a side note, check out ship plan 65. Norddeutscher Lloyd, on this site, which is the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. This vessel was rapidly converted from a commercial vessel into a commerce destroyer by the Imperial German Navy and was an early casualty of WWI. I did a post about his vessel and its history on 11 April 2012, http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2012/04/100th-anniversary-of-titanic-sinking.html
For those of you who want to play CoC in WWI, a most challenging time indeed, this is a good resource. Consider also a German U boat as in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land that Time Forgot, published 1918 as part of the Caprona or Caspak trilogy. Consider getting your travelers being picked up by a German commerce destroyer such as Kaiser Wilhelm de Grosse and ending up on Caprona island with the added fun of Cthonian ruins and perhaps a star appearance by assorted Mythos creatures. (Wikipedia has an article on Caprona, BTW) The resources of a ship run aground would make for a good start of a mini-campaign and these deck plans would be perfect. Frankly, I am a staunch Professor Challenger fan, myself.
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