Knowing how we yell at idiots on canals who come the other way, see something in front, panic, and slam into reverse to, 'Put it in forward and turn the tiller!'. One can imagine a polar bear on the iceberg yelling this at the Titanic as it slammed into reverse. I remember seeing a cartoon once of a queue of people asking about relatives and at the head of the queue is a polar bear asking about his relatives on the iceberg. I guess the cartoon was not contemporary with the period!
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Michael Askin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Michael Askin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Titanic had iron rivets joining steel plates To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:15 PM On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Ron Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED] adsl24.co. uk> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] .co.uk wrote: >> To my understanding Titanic was going too fast for the conditions, and > > ISTR that the rudder was also on the small side. It also amazes me that the > ship did actually turn considering it had three screws all going full > astern. I believe the best turning would have been performed with the center, turbine driven, prop ahead, probably with port screw astern. The center prop was the only screw in front of the rudder. Why this didn't happen I don't know. Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_ DOT_zapto_ DOT_org/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
