albyau
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Would Titanic have stayed afloat?
I have read that had Titanic hit the iceberg head on, that she may have stayed afloat.
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Jun/5/2003, 10:51 am
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albyau
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Re: Would Titanic have stayed afloat?
Maybe if they enter all the data into a computer, they could come up with the answer.
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Re: Would Titanic have stayed afloat?
Hasn't there already been a post Titanic collison been in the news, where due to heavy fog...two ships collided with each other? For which one had her bow bashed in...while the other listed badly, staying afloat long enough for all her passengers to get to safety? Does anybody recall that incident?
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Re: Would Titanic have stayed afloat?
Hi Tammy,
I think the collision you may be referring to was the one between the "Andrea Doria" and the "Stockholm".
The collision occurred on the night of July 25 1956, in heavy fog. Although listing badly to starboard, after receiving a 10 metre (32.5ft) hole in her side. The Andrea Doria remained afloat for 11 hours. The rescue of the passengers was completed in around 7 hours.
A total of 52 people died in the disaster, 49 from the Andrea Doria and 3 sailors from the Stockholm.
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Re: Would Titanic have stayed afloat?
quote: albyau wrote:
Hi Tammy,
I think the collision you may be referring to was the one between the "Andrea Doria" and the "Stockholm".
The collision occurred on the night of July 25 1956, in heavy fog. Although listing badly to starboard, after receiving a 10 metre (32.5ft) hole in her side. The Andrea Doria remained afloat for 11 hours. The rescue of the passengers was completed in around 7 hours.
A total of 52 people died in the disaster, 49 from the Andrea Doria and 3 sailors from the Stockholm.
alby
Thank you, Allen. That's the incident I was thinking of, but I couldn't think of the names of the two ships involved in the accident. To think, one was the famous Andrea Doria...and the other, the Stockholm, the notso famous. I believe that the History Channel aired a documentary about this accident on TV, which is why I remember it so well. But don't you agree, that the Titanic disaster, is the most famous of all sea disasters?
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Re: Would Titanic have stayed afloat?
It's hard to say all these years on, but I have read a book by a Capt. David Brown called LAST LOG OF THE TITANIC and in it, Capt. Brown explains that post-collision, Capt. Smith ran TITANIC ahead for a brief time before shutting the engines down for good. According to Brown this was what really sank TITANIC as more water was forced into the ship. Had this not happened, she might well have remained afloat long enough for help to arrive.
I think that Capt. Brown may well be onto something here. TITANIC may well have remained afloat but for the restarting of her engines.
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Re: Would Titanic have stayed afloat?
I don't know about recently, but Walter Lord in The Night Lives On mentions the Arizona, which, 33 years earlier, had smashed head-on into an iceberg and survived, and there were a few other incidents similar to this as well.
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