Whitewings
Banned
Maritime historians know the details; the public at large knows the outlines, how the Titanic struck an iceberg, how her hull was damaged, and the ship more or less limped into port. But in those details, it was learned that the ship's rivets, made of highest quality #4 iron, which were badly deformed in the collision, were almost replaced by slightly inferior #3 iron, which might well have sheared off entirely. So if the Titanic had actually started leaking unrecoverably, what might the result have been?