What effect did the loss of the Titanic have on subsequent history?

Question

The double skin redesign and modifications to her sisterships Olympic and Brittanic following the loss of Titanic, led to the loss of Brittanic when she hit a mine, so had Titanic not sunk White star would have had 3 liners in 1930 so woud the Cunard merger have happened and would Queen Mary ever have been built..........would we have won the war without the Queens.. any ideas

Answer 1

I am curious how the war was won is related to the Titanic sinking?

The steel was substandard and became brittle in the cold atlantic ocean. I can't clarify whether or not this was determined after the ship sunk or later after the wreck was found and samples analyzed. Also, flaws in the water tight compartments contributed in the sinking. Had the compartments worked as designed, the ship may 1. not sunk, or 2. at least stayed afloat long enough for help to arrive.

Answer 2

The loss of the titanic though poor quality manufacturing sank be cause it hit at a full speed while the captain tried to beat an atlantic crossing record,thus making the damage and manuevurabilty dangerous,also reaction times decreased.This had no effect on the war,only ship building,after all it was the most disastrous event(outside of war that had occurred) During 1939 the U-boats(wolfepack's)had decimated the maritime fleets bringing supplies to England,and since you had to be desparate or crazy to take an oceanline across the atlantic,passengers were low(thus no money to be made)and a treaty-like atmosphere was implemented for the u-boats not to attack Passenger ocean-liners(Hitler didn't want the negative propaganda of that)but then the Allies realized this.Germany through espionage, found out that supplies were being sent via ocean liners( Sinking the Lusitania)So in order for any cruise line to stay in the game they became troop transports,little money was better than no money

Answer 3

You seem to think that "standards" didn't exist prior to Titanic ... that's just wrong. The Titanic was built with substandard metal and the builders cheaped out on safety features. Her hull wasn't ripped, it buckled from the impact because they used brittle metal in the riviting.
As for "we" winning the war ... "we" didn't. The US won the war. The Brits just pissed off the Germans and then glory-hogged the subsequent bailout operation. Gorram poms.
Go re-elect Blair. Then "we" can win in Iraq.

Answer 4

i think it changed the way engineers looked at metal and how it changes when hot and cold. ie metal gets brittle when cold.

Answer 5

What a pointless question. Why am I even bothering to reply?

Answer 6

We had to suffer that crap film because of it grrrrrrrrrr