Battleship propulsion

i saw a program that prove that the steel used in the titanic was faulty, too britle on those temp, so if you add that to the faulty rivetts you have a big problem

 

Me too.

 

I wonder did the Great Eastern had better steel and riviting in those days or was the Titanic just a crappy design (maybe Brunel could have made something good out of it)?
Would the Titanic have survivied if she was double hulled?

 

Likely enough she would have, although that's not 100% certain.

 

I believe its reconned that if Titiannic had simply gone head on into the iceberge she would have survived or at least stayed afloat longer. It was the fact that it was a glancing strike that did for her.

Great Eastern did gash her hull (an eighty three foot hole,) off long island, the hole was much larger than the one(s) that sank Titiannic.

 

Yep. Great Eastern was also double hulled, the first ship to have this feature.

 

A picture tells more than thousand words


http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-c ... -eastn.htm

 

Just as a side note, during the construction of GREAT EASTERN, a riveter and his boy apprentice disappeared from the shipyard. For her entire life, unaccountable pounding noises were heard by many aboard her. When she was finally scrapped, those dismantling her continued to hear the pouinding noises. Then one day, work had to be stopped for the day when workmen discovered the skeletal remains of the missing riveter and apprentice. They had been accidentally sealed in between the double hulls, and the noise of the shipyard drowned out their screams and pounding. Once the skeletons were removed, the pounding was heard no more.

 

The ghost of the riveter and his apprentice lives on!

 

I can tell you, that pounding freaked out a lot of passengers on GREAT EASTERN. Word got out as well, so I daresay that this was one factor in the ship's amazing lack of success as a passenger liner.