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Old September 30th, 2004, 10:38 PM
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WI: Titanic only crippled after collision?

Spring, 1912, a foggy Atlantic night: RMS Titanic’s lookout is a bit slower to report an iceberg ahead. (Perhaps the night’s a bit foggier) Captain Smith orders a course change, but too late. Instead of scraping alongside the wall of ice, she rams it head on at full speed
Historically, she slid along the ice, popping rivets, opening her seams, and progressively flooded in spite of the watertight compartments. Instead, only the bow is ruptured. Hundreds are injured more or less severely, some killed from the shock, others lost overboard or missing, but the ship remains afloat.
A few days later, the world is treated to the sight of Titanic limping into New York stern first, her bow smashed in.
What would the impact be? Would the International Ice Patrol still be formed, new regulations promulgated requiring sufficient lifeboats carried ?
I suspect that there would be far less interest in the ship after 80+ years, but what else?
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Old November 6th, 2004, 04:39 PM
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Instead of "Titanic" by James Cameron, we would have "Lusitania".

Perhaps the Titanic would have been sunk by an Uboat in WW1.

Perhaps another ship would have met an iceberg and we would remember that ship and not the Titanic....

The International Ice Patrol wouldnt be formed, new regulations requiring sufficient lifeboats carried wouldn't be formulated... until the next disaster, of course
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