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Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on?
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I'd have to say that Titanic would have probably sank faster:

It is assumed that the bow of Titanic hit the ocean floor between 15 and 20 knots forward speed, fairly head on. The abrupt stop buckled and flayed the ships steel skin for the first two to three hundred feet of the vessel, in fact ripping tremendous holes in each side of the ship and buckling the bow down 10 to 15 degrees from horizontal at the forward well deck.

This indicates the sort of damage that would have happened to Titanic had she collided head on with a berg...
Posted on: 2006/4/16 9:03
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     Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? TITANICsoul 2005/11/10 4:13
     Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? jarveytoast 2006/2/2 17:35
       Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? TITANICsoul 2006/3/18 3:45
         Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? jarveytoast 2006/3/19 15:17
       Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? LeoPlumtree 2006/3/19 21:31
         Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? jarveytoast 2006/3/20 16:25
           Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? Titanic705 2006/3/22 21:04
     Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? comando 2006/3/23 0:21
       Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? jarveytoast 2006/3/23 17:03
         Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? Martyn 2006/3/24 0:24
     Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? comando 2006/3/27 4:27
       Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? jarveytoast 2006/3/28 0:02
         Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? collegeboy20 2006/3/30 3:12
           Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? Kyle J. W. 2006/3/30 3:59
             Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? jarveytoast 2006/4/2 16:32
     Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? comando 2006/4/14 5:32
       Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? FoX 2006/4/14 13:51
         Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? Mark Passwaters 2006/4/15 22:39
     Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? xmtryanx 2006/4/16 9:03
       Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? Martyn 2006/4/16 10:01
         Re: Would it be better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head on? Mark Passwaters 2006/4/16 15:45
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