According to a TV documentary the reason Titanic split her sides when bouncing off the ice burg was iron rivets joining steel plates together - and cheap rivets at that. The steel bent but the rivets broke... Surely by then any canal engineer or builder of metal canal boats could have told White Star that iron and steel don't mix well as they act in different ways when put under pressure. But was this known at the time?
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