The Titanic

[devogue]

All stuff Titanicky goes here...except shit to do with the film.

Did it strike the iceberg with a glancing blow, or did it ground on to a submerged ice plateau which ripped its arse to shreds?

[Animavore]

Do you care?

[devogue]

Do you care?

I certainly do. I am this forum's foremost expert in things Titanicky. Ask me anything.

[Animavore]

What was the name of the quarter master?

[klr]

All stuff Titanicky goes here...except shit to do with the film.

Did it strike the iceberg with a glancing blow, or did it ground on to a submerged ice plateau which ripped its arse to shreds?

Let wiki be your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic#Sinking

... A collision was inevitable and the iceberg brushed the ship's starboard side, buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline over a length of 299 feet (90 m). As seawater filled the forward compartments, the watertight doors shut. However, while the ship could stay afloat with four flooded compartments, five were filling with water. The five water-filled compartments weighed down the ship so that the tops of the forward watertight bulkheads fell below the ship's waterline, allowing water to pour into additional compartments.

... option (A) by the looks of it.

[devogue]

What was the name of the quarter master?

Which one? There were six, including Robert Hitchins who was at the wheel as the ship struck ice, Alfred Oliver (who was running an errand for the fourth officer) and George Rowe, who was on duty on the aft docking bridge - an hour after the ship struck ice he phoned the bridge to ask them were they aware there was a lifeboat floating alongside the ship.

No shit.

[devogue]

All stuff Titanicky goes here...except shit to do with the film.

Did it strike the iceberg with a glancing blow, or did it ground on to a submerged ice plateau which ripped its arse to shreds?

Let wiki be your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic#Sinking

... A collision was inevitable and the iceberg brushed the ship's starboard side, buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline over a length of 299 feet (90 m). As seawater filled the forward compartments, the watertight doors shut. However, while the ship could stay afloat with four flooded compartments, five were filling with water. The five water-filled compartments weighed down the ship so that the tops of the forward watertight bulkheads fell below the ship's waterline, allowing water to pour into additional compartments.

... option (A) by the looks of it.

I would say Option B.

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/th ... tanic.html

Water was reported to be entering the ship from under the floor (ie at keel level). The lookouts also reported the ship felt like she was "lifting" as she struck the ice, and the gentleness of the collision suggests a soft grounding.

Either way, this is important shit.

[Animavore]

Only as important as you make it.

I care less about the Titanic than I do about the Manchester united plane crash personally.

By the way. Who designed the carpets?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[devogue]

Only as important as you make it.

I care less about the Titanic than I do about the Manchester united plane crash personally.

The Manchester United plane crash was boring by comparison - what's not to like about 50,000 tons of steel going tits up?

By the way. Who designed the carpets?

BMK Stoddard

[Animavore]

The Manchester United plane crash was boring by comparison - what's not to like about 50,000 tons of steel going tits up?

I don't know. It's just very 'meh' to me.

Maybe if you put a pair of tits on it?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Manchester United plane crash was boring by comparison - what's not to like about 50,000 tons of steel going tits up?

I don't know. It's just very 'meh' to me.

Maybe if you put a pair of tits on it?

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[Animavore]

Eh... No. No that's... that's actually... no. You've ruined it all together now.

[devogue]

I know I wasn't going to mention the film Titanic, but it's interesting that the fucker only split in half whenever Kate Winslet was hanging off the rail at the back.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I know I wasn't going to mention the film Titanic, but it's interesting that the fucker only split in half whenever Kate Winslet was hanging off the rail at the back.

Well, she's not a stick figure like Keira Knightley.

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