DBWI: The R.M.S. Titanic Sinks On Her Maiden Voyage

OOC: Certainly nobody would know the Titanic today, except specialists of naval history. The Titanic would the largest ship on earth only for a year or so until German ships catch up. The Titanic was luxurious, yes, but she wasn't significantly more sumptuous than other passenger ships of the period. I'm thinking of the Mauretania and of the Imperator here.

Also, the Titanic had two sister ships, so she would have to share her glory with the Olympic and the Britannic. Maybe the Olympic would even be better known than the Titanic!

For sure only few of us, having at least read a biography of him, would know that Astor was on the Titanic.
 
OOC in this case she's famous because of the books/movies done about her which were OTL's Cameron Movie. So ICLY folks here would have seen the movie or read the book and because of them, they'd know about her and the potential WI of her sinking etc.
 
OOC: Titanic ramming head-on into the iceberg at 22 knots would have been a death sentence for the ship and everyone on board. I suggest we assume OP is talking about a TL where she was either going slower or the iceberg was sighted/reacted to in a way where only one or two compartments were damaged.
OOC: Actually ramming fulls speed ahead might have saved the Titanic, "sliding" along opened so many compartments
 
OOC: Yeah 46,000 tons slamming head first into an immovable object would probably flatten the bow and breach her compartments more violently and instead of slow progressive flooding its just catastrophically fast. The impact would probably mangle her hull and bend it, popping hull plates and rivets to let more water in.
 
OOC: Yeah 46,000 tons slamming head first into an immovable object would probably flatten the bow and breach her compartments more violently and instead of slow progressive flooding its just catastrophically fast. The impact would probably mangle her hull and bend it, popping hull plates and rivets to let more water in.

OOC: The iceberg was estimated at 300.000 ton. thats roughly a 1:7 ratio in mass. The iceberg was thus hardly an "unmovaeable mass". The speed is in relation not that high (21knots=39 km/h) Include the difference in hardness of ice and steel, the impact would have been hard, very hard indeed. Probably crushing the bow and 1-2 forward compartments, but the rest of the ship SHOULD have survived.
 

Ak-84

Banned
If Titanic is lost what then what gets converted to an aircraft carrier in 1918? (OOC, there were some studies to convert the Olympic).

Which ship battles the Japanese fleet off Malaya in 1941 then, yes she was sunk but she sunk one Jap BB and crippled another,
 
If Titanic is lost what then what gets converted to an aircraft carrier in 1918? (OOC, there were some studies to convert the Olympic).

Which ship battles the Japanese fleet off Malaya in 1941 then, yes she was sunk but she sunk one Jap BB and crippled another,
Your thinking of the Britannic the Titanic served WWI as a Hospital ship.
 
Playing along:

How many of you know that the entire novel was inspired by the real-life experiences of the author's 8 or 9 year old grandmother when her family emigrated in 1912? She was on board the RMS Carpathia, a Cunard-line (they were corporate rivals for White Star - Titanic's co) liner that scraped an iceberg in the night of April 10-11, 1912. The hull wasn't breeched, but it was enough for maritime regulations to require lifeboat drills and lifeboats for all on board.

Can you imagine if either ship had actually gone down? Maritime regulations required, I believe 10 lifeboats for passenger ships and less for commercial ones.
 
OOC in this case she's famous because of the books/movies done about her which were OTL's Cameron Movie. So ICLY folks here would have seen the movie or read the book and because of them, they'd know about her and the potential WI of her sinking etc.

OOC: Why should books be done about her?
 

Loghain

Banned
Seeing her converted into an aircraft carrier would've been cool. Probably more destructive than being a hospital ship though

I know one of those ships was converted into Cruiser, but i always titanic was the ship not S.S Bionic and im not speaking about another one converted into fuel tanker
 
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