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Was it the one I saw last night where they tested the type of iron rivets used and proved that steel rivets would have been far stronger?
DOCUMENTARY: Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster On: Quest (144) Date: Saturday 7th January 2017 (starting in 3 days) Time: 16:00 to 18:00 (2 hours long) Intensive scientific research is shedding new light upon this tragedy; what can new technology and this investigation teach us about this supposedly unsinkable ship? (Stereo, Subtitles) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marked By: 'Favourite: Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster' marker Keywords: Documentary, Stereo, Subtitles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=45488 Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited. = DOCUMENTARY: Drain the Titanic On: National Geographic (526) Date: Friday 13th January 2017 (starting in 10 days) Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long) An anytime alert is set for 15 minutes before the programme starts The most famous shipwreck in the world lies over 12,000 feet down in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. No one has fully recorded the extent of what remains of the Titanic - until now. (Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marked By: 'Reminder: Drain the Titanic' and 'Favourite: Drain the Titanic' markers Keywords: Documentary, Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=45488 Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited. = DOCUMENTARY: Titanic: Secrets Revealed On: Movies4Men (325) Date: Tuesday 17th January 2017 (starting in 14 days) Time: 19:00 to 21:00 (2 hours long) A documentary presented by Bernard Hill which investigates the loss of RMS Titanic on 15th April 1912. The programme includes reenactment, archive footage, interviews with survivors and the subsequent salvage operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keywords: Documentary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=45488 Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited. |
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They wouldn't know about it as it was below deck in the coal bunkers. It was mentioned at the inquiry in to the disaster but not considered a major factor in the sinking.
That would have allowed the Carpathia extra time to rescue more passengers;..all conjecture of course. Titanic sank at 2.20am,….Carpathia arrived at 4.00am. The Titanic was doomed the moment she struck the iceberg IMHO,…notwithstanding shitty rivets and a bunker fire. ![]() The Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat in 1918;…Titanics’ sister ship Britannic was sunk by a German ‘mine’ in 1916. |
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I thought the view was that slowing the ship at that point would have meant if would have reacted to the rudder even less and made for a more direct hit?
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They wouldn't know about it as it was below deck in the coal bunkers. It was mentioned at the inquiry in to the disaster but not considered a major factor in the sinking.
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Crew members survived
...all the 'look-outs' survived! ,...the words '"Iceberg dead ahead!" was never actually said. ![]() 50% - the percentage of Navigation Officers who survived (4 out of 8). 0% - the percentage of Engineering Officers who survived (all 25 perished, bravely working to keep the ship afloat for as long as possible). 100% - the percentage of lookouts who survived. |
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I remember watching one of the myriad documentaries and one of the lesser vaunted theories was that if Captain Smith had immediately (after striking the iceberg) put the engines full-astern (i.e. in reverse) then the ship going backwards at several knots would have delayed the sinking by up to 1 hour.
That would have allowed the Carpathia extra time to rescue more passengers;..all conjecture of course. Titanic sank at 2.20am,….Carpathia arrived at 4.00am. The Titanic was doomed the moment she struck the iceberg IMHO,…notwithstanding shitty rivets and a bunker fire. ![]() The Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat in 1918;…Titanics’ sister ship Britannic was sunk by a German ‘mine’ in 1916. However as Captain Smith was not at the bridge and it was his second in command who made that choice we will never know if that would have happened. I think that Smiths thinking with Ismay aboard he would have made the option to try and avoid it in the hope they'd miss and continue on to New York. |
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I saw a different documentary on tv 10 years or so ago where someone made the claim that if the Titanic had not tried to avoid the iceberg and hit it straight on it would have absorbed the impact and not caused the liner to sink.
However as Captain Smith was not at the bridge and it was his second in command who made that choice we will never know if that would have happened. I think that Smiths thinking with Ismay aboard he would have made the option to try and avoid it in the hope they'd miss and continue on to New York. “…if Murdoch had steamed right at the berg instead of trying to miss it, he might have saved the ship. There would have been a fearful crash –passengers and crew in the first 100 feet would have been killed by the impact- but the Titanic would have remained afloat.” or “….if the ship struck dead on, it would have failed at the same point, right in front of the bridge, and it would have sunk in less than 15 minutes, like the Lusitania, killing almost everyone. ” http://www.williammurdoch.net/man-07...etrospect.html |
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Sulla, as you can see from the link provided on the previous page a number of surviving crew did in fact testify to the US and British boards if inquiry that there was a coal bunker fire, that they fought it for some days, and it was finally extinguished on the Saturday night.
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Has anyone contributing to this thread ever annealed an old copper engine gasket?
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The smallest detail that had huge consequences, no binoculars for the lookout:
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How much would the Titanic have had to slow in order to save the ship?
Why did they not take the iceberg threat seriously? |
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The smallest detail that had huge consequences, no binoculars for the lookout:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blair_(mariner) I'm not sure how much blame the fire can be laid on the sinking - we'll probably never know for sure. But my understanding is that she was penetrated throughout too many bulkheads to stay afloat (five I think?). Fire aside, it was a mathematical certainty she would sink. I think anything up to four bulkheads with water would have seen her stay afloat but I think having five was too much. I'm sure when Thomas Andrews inspected the damage he'd have known this. |
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Hubris sums it up. The Captain takes responsibility for steaming so fast so far north at that time of year.
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Sorry, no, the melting point of steel is 1500C, there is no way a coal fire at 1000C could ever cause a structural failure, many steel-hulled boats have survived far worse fires without sinking.
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To re-use a copper cylinder head gasket, bike or motorcycle, you had to make it soft again so it could be clamped down on and sealed properly. To do this you "annealed" it...heated it UNTIL CHERRY RED...then quench cooled it in cold water.
But if you do the same to steel it doesn't soften it, it hardens it all the way through and makes it brittle. Once the Titanic's coal trimmers STARTED to get the fire under control and damped down...there would be a point when the fire was no longer hot enough to keep tge hull plates cherry red. By the time this would have happened the ship was in the freezing North Atlantic iceberg lanes...and deprived of the banked heat behind them keeping them hot, the hull plates would have been suddenly quench cooled. If the hull plates weren't brittle before - they would suddenly have become so then! |
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I made a flat-blade, steel screwdriver at school. We were shown how to anneal/quench.
It snapped clean through the tip the second time I used it, on a slightly tight screw. |
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Steel is supposed to be quench cooled from almost white hot to harden the surface layers...and also not quenched until fully cold. The outer layer/layers of the steel should be hardened...but the inside be softer so there's some flexibility in the sheet or bar. "Flexible" being a relative term here lol
Quench cooling from just cherry red to totally cold hardens it all the way through I.E. Makes it hard but brittle. |
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I made a flat-blade, steel screwdriver at school. We were shown how to anneal/quench.
It snapped clean through the tip the second time I used it, on a slightly tight screw. |
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So was the Titantic ramming the iceberg done deliberately in an attempt to extinguish the raging fire burning in the hull?
So many questions, we need answers goddamit!! As a plan, it certainly worked. That fire went out. The two conspiracy theories, fire and ice. I see myself in the middle of the two, kind of like lukewarm water. |
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Another 2 hour documentary last night on Quest. Why so many this week? That's 3 nights running I've watched one! Interesting though. Amazed at all the artefacts that are being restored and preserved in a facility in France. Clothes very well preserved in a suitcase. Letters and papers just fine still in suitcases.
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If true it just confirms that an accident is never caused by one thing. Everything has to align in exactly the wrong way otherwise the accident would never happen.
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If owners White Star had followed the designers' recommendations and fitted 44 lifeboats instead of 16 there'd have been no deaths.
They thought that 44 looked aesthetically wrong and in those days there were no regulations like now that there must be lifeboat places and lifejackets for EVERY passenger.
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If owners White Star had followed the designers' recommendations and fitted 44 lifeboats instead of 16 there'd have been no deaths.
They thought that 44 looked aesthetically wrong and in those days there were no regulations like now that there must be lifeboat places and lifejackets for EVERY passenger. ![]() There were 1178 places and 705 passengers. |
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No there wouldnt have been no deaths. They didn't even fill the lifeboats they had so would have need almost two places for every passenger at the rate they were filling them so it's a simplification to say 'one per passenger', there were many other factors at play.
There were 1178 places and 705 passengers. |
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There were 2222 folk on the Titanic, 1300 of them passengers, it could have carried 2600 passengers
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They thought that 44 looked aesthetically wrong and in those days there were no regulations like now that there must be lifeboat places and lifejackets for EVERY passenger.