DBWI: The RMS Titanic Sunk on Maiden Voyage?

I wonder, what would happen if the RMS Titanic were sunk on her Maiden voyage? There was that close encounter with that iceburg on April 14th 1912. What would happen if she has been sunk there?
 
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I wonder, what would happen if the RMS Titanic were sunk on her Maiden voyage? There was that close encounter with that iceburg on April 14th 1912. What would happen if she has been sunk there?

Then White Star Line would have been the ones in the Docks for not having enough Lifeboats to get everyone off a sinking ship. IIRC, there was only enough for about half the passengers! At least they fixed that serious failing after WW1.
 
What was it that could have sunk her, out of interest?

Iceberg. They were in an iceberg field at that point. If my history is right - and I'd like to be corrected if I'm wrong - the use of binoculars and the waves meant they were able to see them from a distance and avoid them.
 
Iceberg. They were in an iceberg field at that point. If my history is right - and I'd like to be corrected if I'm wrong - the use of binoculars and the waves meant they were able to see them from a distance and avoid them.

An iceberg? No way. An iceberg would have had to hit it so it ruptured a half dozen compartments, and unless the iceberg had engines it couldn't do it. Maybe if it was a German "Iceberg Class" U-Boat...

OK, let's say it does sink, because the crew is incompetent or something. There were a lot of famous and/or important people on the ship. Andrew Carnagie comes to mind. Imagine what having him die before the Great War would do to U.S. Steel production (and butterflies into USN Dreadnaught building!).
 

DTanza

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An iceberg? No way. An iceberg would have had to hit it so it ruptured a half dozen compartments, and unless the iceberg had engines it couldn't do it. Maybe if it was a German "Iceberg Class" U-Boat.

Because pre-WW1 Britain was renowned for it's amazing safety precautions. :rolleyes:
 
One thing I'd b certain of here.. Germany still loses WWII :D

Gave some thought to this one. Just cant see how a combination of crew errors, a multi compartment (12???), and post strike engineering errors could occur. While doing research I did notice one of the officers was a chap named "Lightroller" Harry L. He had been a junior officer aboard a passenger ship that grounded & sank off Australia. Later he was aboard a torpedoed & sunk cargo ship in WWI. He came out of retirement in 1940 to captain tranport ships, one of which was sunk. i suspect by that point he gave a lot of attention to lifeboat drills and what all.
 

sharlin

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If she had have sunk she would not have done stirling work alongside Olympic and the Aquitania carrying US troops across when they finally entered WW1. Its a shame those grand old ladies were cut up for scrap, all save the Aquitania, they were old and in the depression the money simply wasn't there to keep them.
 
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