No icebergs? <g>
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Titanic, was More from the Airport
>I personally subscribe to the theory that Titanic had a coal-bunker
> fire and the full-throttle journey was to exhaust it.
>
> While it may be true that the construction of the ship, using
> incorrect riveting methods, created a weakness, that isn't what sank
> the ship. That's like saying that Drano is a defective product because
> it will kill you if you drink it. Improper operation of the ship is
> what sank the ship. Also, "accidents" do happen. There was an
> unfortunate ripple in the time-space continium which placed the
> iceberg at exactly the same position as the hull of the Titanic.
>
> Had the iceberg collision never occured, the ship would have probably
> served out a career similar to the sister ship "RMS Olympic". In fact,
> the Olympus, which had similar, if not identical manufacturing
> defects, survived a collision with another ship that flooded two
> compartments. The compartmentalization design worked, but after the
> Titanic disaster, the bulkheads were raised to the B-Deck to prevent
> the flooding from cascading over into the adjacent compartments.
>
> There were unfortunate design choices which contributed to the
> problem. Rudder size and position being one of them. But these are the
> kinds of things which time and experience fix. Ships of that size
> today use vastly different propulsion systems and rudders to address
> issues learned from previous ships. Even so, there are plenty of ships
> built even today that have major design faults which are only learned
> through experience and disaster.
>
> A funny/interesting thing. Ocean going ships have a relatively short
> service life. But on the Great Lakes, the freighters there last a long
> long long time. In fact, there are ships plying the Great Lakes that
> date back to even before Titanic was built.
>
> AG
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