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Originally Posted by stocktree
Was the ships engines disabled after the hit? Would have been nice to back up and offload people onto the iceberg.
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By the time Titanic stopped it was a distance from the iceberg, even putting the screw propellers into reverse took a while to stop the 52 thousand ton ship and I doubt passengers could clamber aboard the iceberg because of the slippery sloping sides.
The engines worked but every time the ship would move it for sure would expedite the flooding.