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Originally Posted by M5Rick
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.
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Originally Posted by M5Rick
Titanic was a one inch thick single plate ship unlike the double plated ones built later and the burning coal was next to the wall of the ship weakening the superstructure cold water or not.
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If there was a fire next to the steel, while in cold water, that steel would have never heated up.