That’s part of what I meant. Titanic’s sinking resulted in some very valuable design and safety lessons.
If a valuable piece of equipment is inaccessible while at sea the Captain or anyone of rank can order any necessary steps to recover it for use up to and including cutting torches.
The locks of that era were easily breached and no doubt at least one member of the crew could have done it on command.
The whole line of reasoning sounds like something from a Monty Python sketch.
"Oh dear, we've locked the binoculars away, what shall we do?"
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