What wold have happened if the Titanic had instead slammed head on into the iceberg? would it have survived or?

Question

or would it have been worse?

Answer 1

Contrary to previous answer, the iceberg didn't rip a hole in the ship's hull. It didn't even rip any hull plates off. However, the impact dented hull plates to pop enough rivets in enough compartments to sink it. According to computer models the total size of the openings (note the plural) was about 25 square feet, smaller than a single hull plate. Had it been a military ship, with the crew properly trained in damage control, they would have been able to contain the flooding.



The bow is one of the strongest parts of the ship, and the internal compartments were a lot smaller than amidships. Most likely, had the Titanic not tried to avoid collision, she would have most likely not only survived, but would have been able to limp into port under her own power. It would have been embarrassing for the White Star Line, but not nearly as tragic.



Today, the ships crews are trained, in case the collision is unavoidable, to avoid a glancing blow and hit the object head on.

Answer 2

The problem is that no one knows the size (and more importantly) the shape of the iceberg. It was obviously pretty huge to have been able to shatter the hull steel as the boat grazed by instead of just being pushed aside by the ship. But such an impact would have smashed up the bow pretty bad - and thrown crew and equipment around with a significant jolt.

It is possible that if they had been really lucky, that the ship would have smashed into the iceberg and temporarily "beached" itself on the iceberg. In order to stay beached, in most scenarios it would have required the ship's steam engines to have survived the impact shock and for the propeller blades to have kept running - thus placing continued forward pressure on the iceberg. And it would have had to have been a very huge iceberg to not be rolled over by the partial weight of a ship that large.

The "beaching" would have possibly given the passengers more time to leave the ship and perhaps would have allowed them to lower down on the iceberg itself as a temporary "lifeboat". But we can think that in hindsight - who knows what a panicked crew and passengers would have done.

A "beached" Titanic might have allowed the crew time to strategically counter-flood the aft sections of the lower decks and kept the boat on an even keel. That possibly could have saved the ship and the ship was set up to allow counter flooding. But once again we are assuming an iceberg that would have been the right size and shape for "beaching". An improbable but not impossible scenario.

Answer 3

The direction of impact in the case at hand is not going to matter. Regard not the area of impact or even the location. What is tantamount here to the solution hinges in the amount and the extent of damage done to the boat. In those icy waters, not waiting for sharks, your caboose will freeze solid.

And so forth. If the Titanic had in fact had an encounter with some object, be it ice or walruses, and had done only very minor damage to any part of its structure, in that case, sure, no problem. We sail on! Now the situation cannot be both cases. It was meant to sink and it sunk and sunk deep. Had it not, we would not have had the movies to watch nor the stories to tell.

Answer 4

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