Posted by Scott Andrews on November 30, 1998 at 11:35:12 in 205.147.245.41:
In Reply to: The Sinking posted by Doug Westfall on November 24, 1998 at 15:55:34:
Jason and Roy,
You may be interested to know what has been written of the sinking of the Titanic
in technical journals such as the Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers. The most recent annual publication, vol. 105, 1997, has all of the
papers presented at the Society's 1997 annual meeting, at which the lead-off paper was
one co-authored by, among others, William H. Garzke and David Wood of Gibbs and Cox and
David Livingstone of Harland & Wolff (Thomas Andrews' most recent successor). This paper
deals with Titanic's loss and the sinking process itself through detailed engineering
analysis. At the conclusion of the paper are printed responses to the author's work con-
taining contradictory points of view, corrections to factual data and expansion of theo-
retical data put forth by the authors. Among those to respond are H&W's Bedford and Hacket.
It is interesting to note that while there is some difference of opinion as to what portion
of the vessel mainly held the two major sections together, there is a concensus of agreement
that the final parting of the bow and stern occured at some time after the stern plunged
below the surface, this final breakup having occured after the bow pulled the stern to a
depth sufficient to cause implosion. If either of you would like a copy of this paper, please
send me your mailing address and I will be happy to send it on to you. There is a great deal
of interesting technical information in this paper.
Regards,
Scott
PS - Bedford and Hacket authored a paper on the sinking of the Titanic which is supposed to
have been printed in it's entirety along with a similar following discussion and author's reply
in the annual publication on the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, of which Thomas Andrews
was a member. If I can lay hands to a copy, I'll let you know.