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Titanic Design
You would have thought this was an easy question but the more I
look the more I tend to believe the conspiracy people ;-)
If you look at a picture of the Titanic how many port hole
things are there in the white gunwales section on the front
of the port side.
Ta
M
look the more I tend to believe the conspiracy people ;-)
If you look at a picture of the Titanic how many port hole
things are there in the white gunwales section on the front
of the port side.
Ta
M
Answers
this is from the link Mamyalynne provided, if it's any help Both Olympic and Titanic had 15 portholes on the starboard side of the forecastle on C-Deck. On the same area on the port side, both were launched with 14 portholes. However, Titanic was modified before she sailed to have 16 and Olympic received the same modification after Titanic was gone. As proof,...
20:54 Wed 10th Dec 2014
what have the port hole things got to do with it?
Who's consipiring to do what?
The Titanic sank because the captain tried to dodge the iceberg, which then scraped along the side and let water into a lot of compartments. If he'd hit it head on water would only have got into a couple and the ship would have survived.
Who's consipiring to do what?
The Titanic sank because the captain tried to dodge the iceberg, which then scraped along the side and let water into a lot of compartments. If he'd hit it head on water would only have got into a couple and the ship would have survived.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
There is no doubt that at the time of its design and construction, Titanic was the finest example of design and construction afloat.
It is impossible to have foreseen the catastrophic effects of the iceberg's impact, and that in itself was compounded by the captain's decision to attempt not only to slow down, but to try and pass the berg, both of which added to the horrendous physical damage suffered by the ship, and its consequent rapid flooding and sinking.
The amount of portholes had absolutely no effect on the ship's sinking, that was caused entirely by the design which allowed water to flood over the tops of structural compartments, which rapidly dropped the bows below the waterline, and even more quickly upended the ship which broke her back and sent her to the bottom.
Not sure who your 'conspiracy people' are, but a quick lesson in basic ship design, coupled with basic physics, will show you that porthole inclusion was not connected to the sinking of the Titanic.
There is no doubt that at the time of its design and construction, Titanic was the finest example of design and construction afloat.
It is impossible to have foreseen the catastrophic effects of the iceberg's impact, and that in itself was compounded by the captain's decision to attempt not only to slow down, but to try and pass the berg, both of which added to the horrendous physical damage suffered by the ship, and its consequent rapid flooding and sinking.
The amount of portholes had absolutely no effect on the ship's sinking, that was caused entirely by the design which allowed water to flood over the tops of structural compartments, which rapidly dropped the bows below the waterline, and even more quickly upended the ship which broke her back and sent her to the bottom.
Not sure who your 'conspiracy people' are, but a quick lesson in basic ship design, coupled with basic physics, will show you that porthole inclusion was not connected to the sinking of the Titanic.
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