Thursday, May 4, 2023
Photo of the twin reciprocating engines onboard Titanic resting two and a half miles deep under the sea. The engines stand four stories tall and put out a combined 30,000 horsepower. When combined with the center turbine engine rated for 16,000 horsepower, the Titanic could go greater than 20 knots.
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Nope, those engine will put out zero hp and have for many years.
ReplyDeleteNot without the boilers
Delete20+ knots horizontally, how many knots did it achieve vertically?
ReplyDeleteI believe the estimated speed at impact was over 60mph.
Deletelow mileage - one owner
ReplyDeleteInsurance fraud.
ReplyDeleteAnother rabbit hole of conspiracy.
Ramming speed.
ReplyDeleteI read a commentary on the Titanic sinking that suggested that if the ship hadn't seen the iceberg or turned that a frontage collision would have destroyed the bow but not opened so many compartments up to the sea. Titanic could have stayed afloat. But I wonder what damage those engines could have done to the ship in a sudden stop.
ReplyDeleteNever drive faster at night than the stopping distance you can see with your headlights. - Rules of the Road, since horses
ReplyDeleteBad rivets sunk the Titanic.
ReplyDeleteClearly not, since it travelled hundreds of miles at high speed without a hitch with those "bad" rivets.
DeleteReformulate that hypothesis and take another whack at it.
Those engines took it all the way to the crash site.
ReplyDeleteEvidently couldn't turn worth a shit, though.
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