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They hit an iceberg going pretty fast and no one knows why they were going so fast. I think you’re glossing over the idea that the burning coals were thrown in
by debt 8y ago
They hit an iceberg going pretty fast and no one knows why they were going so fast.
I think you’re glossing over the idea that the burning coals were thrown into the furnace which in turn revved up the engine which caused the Titanic to speed through the Atlantic and right into an iceberg.
- tbirrell 8y agoThe Titanic was going fast because they were trying to get to New York ahead of schedule for the favorable publicity. To say that the Titanic was careening out of control through the Atlantic Ocean that by all rights should have been devoid of icebergs because some lowly stokers were shoveling coal into a furnace faster than they should have is both simplistic and flat out wrong.
- debt 8y ago"The Titanic was going fast because they were trying to get to New York ahead of schedule for the favorable publicity." Yeah but the article is saying that's not the real reason it was speeding. It was the coals in the furnace.
- Aloha 8y agoTitanic could have easily been venting steam to achieve the same purpose
- dragonwriter 8y ago> They hit an iceberg going pretty fast and no one knows why they were going so fast. They were going so fast because going flat out at or near top speed to make or beat schedule was standard practice for passenger liners of the time, even in the face of sea ice, relying on lookouts to spot icebergs and past experience which showed that even direct impacts generally failed to prevent completing the voyage.