What would of happened if the titanic rammed the iceberg?

Question

AN was just a gash or random hole put into her sides

could she have survived

what would be the damage

Answer 1

The Titanic would easily have survived the damage as the ship could float with any 5 water tight compartments flooded. In the collision scenario the 1st 2 or 3 compartments would flood and the ship would have survived to come home under her own power. The down side would be all that furniture and glass ware flying forward when the ship hit the iceberg. That would have killed several people at least and wounded many but that is vastly better than the alternative. The ships side wasn't gashed in fact the plates were dented in creating openings that allowed the water in. Hope I was helpful.

Answer 2

The Titanic would have eventually sunk, but two things could have happened.

The ship could have beached itself on the iceberg. In this senerio, it would be like purposely running aground, like many ships did during the attack on Pearl Harbor (those ships didn't sink and were rebuilt in about 3 months). In order for this to happen, there had to be enough water between the bottom of the Titanic and the underwater part of the iceberg so that it could get the majority of the hull over the iceberg. The Titanic would have sunk a little bit, but rested on the iceburg till help arrived.

Another senerio would have been to get people to the tip of the iceberg, if there was a tip (the whole thing could have been underwater). The ship would have been lost and it would have been dangerous for other ships to get near the Titanic, but at least there would have been more time to do something.

There was plenty of things that went wrong during the Titanic. The navigator and the pilot had different ideas on where they were, there wasn't enough lifeboats, there was no evacuation plan, the captain ignored reports there were icebergs and it was of course night without radar or sonar and a ship that really couldn't turn. I don't know if the captain could have steered around and found the iceberg to beach in an hour or so before the ship sank.

Answer 3

It all depends on the size of the ice berg hit.

A smaller ice berg:

It would have crumpled the foward compartments, but not had massive flooding. It still might have sank, but not as fast and would have given more time for help to arrive.

A large ice berg:

It would have probaly resulted in all lives being lost.

Imagine a 46,000 ton ship going 23 knots coming to an abrupt stop. ( imagine a car hitting a concrete wall)

It would have crushed the first 3rd of the ship.

The impact would have broken loose all most every peice of equipment in the ship, engines, boilers, interior bulkheads.

Most of the passengers would have received severe injuries from the trama of hitting interior walls and bulkheads, think of everyone with multiple broken bones.

Answer 4

She probably would have survived. The compartment structure was designed to prevent flooding if only a few were breached, provided the ship remained more or less level.

It was the combination of the long gash, and the sidewards/forward tilt that allowed multiple compartments to flood.

Answer 5

Remember, PROFESSIONALS built the Titanic and an AMATEUR built the Ark. The commercial airliner you fly in was built by the lowest bidder.

Answer 6

She still would've sank. Remember, most icebergs have much more mass below the surface.

Answer 7

it still would have sunk

iceberg's are very powerful