On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 06:29:38 -0800 (PST), David Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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? > But maybe the shipbuilder was under severe financial pressure and were cost cutting. This was long long before any of our modern safety regulations - as show by the serious lack of lifeboats. But on the other hand her sister ships Olympic survived until 1935 and the Majestic until 1939. So given they were built in 1910 - 1914 - what does this say about the TV programme. ??? -- Malcolm
