April 15th - RMS Titanic Sinks

[Die Fledermaus]

Less than three hours after hitting an iceberg at 11:35 PM on the 14th, the RMS Titanic sank in frigid waters--one of the greatest and most terrible maritime disasters ever.

Most of the deaths in this well-known story died due to hypothermia, not drowning.

RIP to all the victims.

[Hamsters82]

Yes, rest in peace to all of them. Now the Titanic is going with all the corrosion on it from being underwater for so long.

[pinky]

The latest debate is whether substandard rivets were used on the area struck by the iceberg.

www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15titanic.html

[Die Fledermaus]

I read it all.

I had heard long ago that the quality of the steel bow plates was inferior resulting in it being brittle in frigid water.

You're the chemist, though not metallurgist. seem feasible? Does to me.

Wonder when ships' steel hulls began to be welded not riveted. . . (no time to research that now!).


Wonder if they posted about this here. I have no time to check myself now:

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi?pg=topics


www.titanichistoricalsociety.org/