Supplement ur answers with refrences please.
2006-09-18 05:53:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Note that the Titanic was powered by turbines, not by the reciprocating engines depicted in the engine-room shots in the recent film, which could have run in reverse at full power. Turbines cannot be reversed, and the Titanic probably had 12 full-sized forward turbines, and two small ones for reverse manoeuvring, so "Full speed astern!" was impossible.
2006-09-18 06:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Titanic was running at approximately 22 knots when it struck the iceberg.
At 11:30pm on the night of the sinking the two lookouts spotted what they believed to be haze on the horizon, extending approximately 20 degrees on either side of the ship's bow, despite there being no other reports of haze at any time. Collins believes that what they saw was not haze but a strip of pack ice, three to four miles ahead of the ship. (Collins, 2003, p16)
The ice was variously reported as 60 feet high by the lookouts, 100 feet high by Quatermaster Rowe on the poop deck, and only very low in the water by Fouth Officer Boxhall, on the starboard side near the darkened bridge. Collins believes that this was due to 'an optical phenomenon that is well known to ice navigators' where the flat sea and extreme cold distort the appearance of objects near the waterline, making them appear to be the height of the ship's lights, about 60 feet above the surface near the bow, and 100 feet high alongside the superstructure. (Collins, 2003, p17-18)
A ship such as the Titanic turned by pivoting about a point approximately a quarter of the ship's length from the bow, with the result that with her rudder hard over, she could not have avoided crushing her entire starboard side into an iceberg were such a collision to occur, with the result that 'the hull and possibly the superstructure on the starboard side would have been rent. In all probability the ship would have flooded, capsized, and sunk within minutes.' (Collins, 2003, p24-25)
2006-09-18 13:05:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the top speed of: 23 knots (42.5 km/h) (26.4 mi/h) when it hit an iceberg at 11:40 P.M on April 14, 1912.You can visit the following website for additional details:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
2006-09-18 13:12:25 · answer #3 · answered by hots! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Warp Speed
2006-09-18 13:00:28 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was running at "Full Ahead" About 14 knots.
2006-09-18 12:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was trying to reduce its speed from 22 knots..
2006-09-18 13:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
21 knots.
2006-09-18 13:07:33 · answer #7 · answered by swajji 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋