https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/unsinkable-olympicclass-passen/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:54:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/unsinkable-olympicclass-passen/#comment-6588 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:54:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/unsinkable-olympicclass-passen/#comment-6588 Both: yes. There was a lot of slag in the rivets and the plates were of dubious quality. My last ‘command’ was refitted at Harland and Wolff in Belfast and it was with some trepidation I sailed her. (Rightly so: their delicate attentions left my boat’s propshaft bent.)

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/unsinkable-olympicclass-passen/#comment-6587 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:06:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/unsinkable-olympicclass-passen/#comment-6587 Yes, there was undifferentiated slage in the steel, in the rivets, making those rives act more like iron.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/unsinkable-olympicclass-passen/#comment-6586 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:06:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/unsinkable-olympicclass-passen/#comment-6586 wasn’t there a problem with high sulfur content in the steel that had left it overly brittle? I wish I could remember where I read the article about the questionable metallurgy of the Titanic’s hull.

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