[BITList] The Unsinkable Titanic

[Michael Feltham]

Hugh,

There was a 10 second shot later on in the programme were you actually  
saw a reciprocating engine working.  It always beats me why they don't  
get professional advice when making similar programmes.  During the  
hour and a half you occasionally had an archivist for White Star  
appearing, he was quite sensible, regarding the Enquiry he said it was  
a whitewash covering up for the B.O.T. for not having sufficient  
lifeboats aboard.

Mike
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On 18 Apr 2009, at 21:36, HUGH wrote:

I gave the subject TV programme 20 minutes to straighten up and fly  
right before switching off and going on to more useful things.  They  
spent half the 20 minutes tracing the path of the iceberg from 1910  
when it calved (so they said), and the other half displaying scant  
knowledge of shipbuilding.

She sailed, they said, after all the plates, etc, had been proved  
watertight - a new one on me.  And the recent discovery that wrought  
iron rivets had been used in some areas was interpreted as being  
somehow connected with the use of hand riveting (it being an inferior  
process, according to them) instead of hydraulic riveting.  In fact,  
hydraulic riveting (using giant G clamp-type riveters) was limited to  
those areas where there was room to employ it, mostly off the hull,  
certainly never where the hull curved or where access was tight, and  
much of the hull was curved or awkwardly arranged.  My grandfather and  
his two brothers worked as riveters, and I don't think they ever saw a  
hydraulic machine.  I wanted to stay with it to see if she had  
engines, but it was not to be.

Hugh.
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