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As usual arse end, you have watched a video and your sponge-like brain has soaked up whatever was said.That is the theory as to why the titanic went down , a coal fire had weakend the steel of one of the flood proof compartment bulk heads
which caused it to buckle & eventually burst open
The new evidence was based on 13 photographs at launch:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/a...ning-unseen-photographs-of-ship-30665076.htmlThe album contains 13 photographs from Titanic's launch on May 31, 1911 when her prow kissed sea water for the first time.
The 'mark' on the hull was photographed at launch in May 1911. Then another fire was attributed to the same 'mark' on the hull during the voyage form Belfast to Southampton, in April 1912, nearly a year later, following completion and sea trials!
Anyone who has done any steel plating will be well aware of steel plates to deform and buckle when welded/riveted in such a massive configuration like that. The 'mark could easily be one such deformation of the plating.
Additionally, the documentary suggested that the fire(s) weakened the external plating so as to allow the iceberg to damage the external plating.
Which just means that the reason for the sinking was exactly the same, i.e. water overflowing the supposed water tight bulkheads.
Also:
http://titanic-model.com/db/db-03/CoalBunkerFire.htmIt is believed that the fire was extinguished during the evening watch (4-8 P.M.) on Saturday, April 13, by a combination of wetting down the coal pile with a fire hose and ultimately removing the burning coal into the furnaces.During the period the fire burned, steel in the lower corner of the transverse watertight bulkhead between Boiler Room Nos. 5 and 6 ultimately became cherry red[4]. ...
As the Titanic departed on 10th April, the fire was out 24 hours prior to hitting the iceberg on 14th April, So the fire was only evident for 2 or 3 days, and the steel became only cherry red.
http://writing.engr.psu.edu/uer/bassett.htmlOn April 14, 1912, however, the Titanic sideswiped a massive iceberg and sank in less than three hours. Damaging nearly 300 feet of the ship's hull, the collision allowed water to flood six of her sixteen major watertight compartments
I would suggest a perusal of https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/flooding-of-boiler-room-no-4.10026/
before making an arse end of yourself.
You should pay more attention to listening, watching and questioning your favorite programmes, especially Woman's Hour!
Then you would not waste so much time spreading your fake news, which you appear to be very fond of.
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