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.
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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