If Titanic hadn't sunk in 1912, would she have been converted to a troopship in WWI? How long could she have lasted interwar. Presumably she'd be scrapped or laid up before WWII breaks out?
Let's see. Olympic was scrapped in 1935, Titanic struck that 'burg and Britannic was sunk by a German mine in 1916.Yeah, the British might turn it into a troop transport, to bring in soldiers from across the Empire. As for after the war; what happened to the other ships of Titanic's class?
Actually it was the nurses on board fault. Britannic probley could have survived the explosion if they had not opened the lower portholes before she hit the mine. Same thing happened the Empress of Ireland in 1914.Brittanic was sunk by a mine in 1916 (her engineers' fault, not the crew's) and Olympic was scrapped in 1936.
Nah, a 2004 exprdition found the minefield, and the only known sub in the area was a German minelaying sub.The Brittanic was actually requisitioned as a Hospital ship for the Gallipoli campaign. Her sinking was never definitely confirmed as a mine as there is good circumstantial evidence that it was an Austrian submarine (yeah, sounds funny, doesn't it? But in WW1 Austria had a navy). The evidence for that comes from a report by an Austrian civilian who was repatriated from Egypt on the Brittanic and had reported that the ship had carried regular (i.e. not-sick or wounded) troops and was therefore a legitimate war target.
The wreck has been investigated several times and the story is still open.
Come 1917, I am sure that the Titanic would have been presse into transatlantic troops-ship service.
Wow creepy I was thinking about WIs related to the Titanic just the other day. So the fate of the ship itself is probably pretty easy to guess, but what about the effects of the Titanic not hitting the ice berg on April 14 and arriving early in New York? Would white star possibly build more titanic class ships? What about the Ice patrol system that came about after the titanic. And what about lifeboat regulations? Would some other disaster akin to the OTL titanic sinking occur that would cause a change in lifeboat regulations and other maritime safety rules?