Opening Portholes with Barn-Door Deadlights - Aureol

Opening Portholes with Barn-Door Deadlights - Aureol
The most impressive porthole I have ever come across and just about as Jules Verne as you get. This amazing brass 'barn-door' deadlight, lockable, opening porthole is from an Elder Dempster Line Passenger Ship called the 'AUREOL' built by Alexander Stephen and Sons at Glasgow in 1951.
The porthole has four brass securing keys; two that allow the deadlights to open and the other two to let the glass open. The portholes have a locking system that when twisted with a large clock key-like tool, revolves a bronze ring around the frame. the porthole can be locked shut conventionally by the keys, the locking system is a failsafe, bomb-proof, back-up for when you are rounding the Horn!
Proudly stamped into each porthole is, 'Utley Rainhill' ( see detail photo below). Utley is the name of the company who were brass-founders and ships light manufacturers between 1829-1977. There just aren't any ships with fittings like this anymore.
Dimensions: 14 inch 36cm Glass Size
22 inch 56cm Overall
Weight 68 Kg !!
Aureol
Elder Dempster Lines, Liverpool.
Built by Alexander Stephen and Sons at Glasgow
14,083 GRT
537 x 70 feet