----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:39 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Titanic had iron rivets joining steel plates
> "Michael Askin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> A head-on collision would have broken open only the fore-most >>> "watertight" compartment, which, even if full of water, would >>> apparently not have caused the ship to sink. >>Ah, but would either of you choose to hit the iceberg (at the risk of >>damaging millions of pounds (in todays money) of internal fittings and >>the hull), and then explain to the captain you thought it would be >>safer to hit the iceberg than go around it! :-) > I'm sure the captain didn't see it as a choice between colliding head > on or in a glancing blow. He surely saw it as a choice between > colliding (if he didn't change course) and not colliding (if he did). > Adrian All this talk of early big iron rivets takes me back about 25 years to when Monks Hall Iron Bedstead Works was closing in Warrington. My friend Fred Dibnah, (not famous then) & I wanted some of the old equipment. I wanted an old 110 volt DC electric motor built by my great uncle as an apprentice & Fred wanted some 1880's lineshaft driven large rivet making machines that I had seen and told Fred about. I negotiated a price but when Fred and I arrived to pick up the items we found that my motor was OK but the manager hadn't told the staff & Freds machines had been scrapped. See http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2895573510028520097roCKFY And http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2303409320028520097aKwGYq Dave Croft Warrington http://www.oldengine.org/members/croft/ http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
