Landships II

Centurion · Legend

Those vents

Mark Hansen · Legend

Centurion wrote:

However I have been told that the �British Tank� states that such a system was designed by Central Workshops and rejected in Britain �without trial�. This seems incredible. A modern landlord who took such an attitude with a faulty water heater would very likely find themselves facing the wrong end of a manslaughter charge.

Be cautious in applying modern standards to past events. A passenger ship today that supplied a number of lifeboats below the capacity to carry every passenger would not be allowed but the Titanic was permitted because the standards of the day allowed ships to have lifeboat capacity calculated on tonnage rather than passengers carried. The Titanic actually exceeded the specs of the time.

Centurion · Legend

Mark Hansen wrote:

Centurion wrote: However I have been told that the �British Tank� states that such a system was designed by Central Workshops and rejected in Britain �without trial�. This seems incredible. A modern landlord who took such an attitude with a faulty water heater would very likely find themselves facing the wrong end of a manslaughter charge. Be cautious in applying modern standards to past events. A passenger ship today that supplied a number of lifeboats below the capacity to carry every passenger would not be allowed but the Titanic was permitted because the standards of the day allowed ships to have lifeboat capacity calculated on tonnage rather than passengers carried. The Titanic actually exceeded the specs of the time.

Well not quite true, Titanic was designed for a double row of lifeboats but only a single was fitted, partly for asthetic reasons, partly because no in White Star could work out how to get passengers safely into the outside boats before launching and partly because the ships officers didn't trust the structural inegrity of the davits to handle the weight. Indeed many of the lifeboats that were fitted were launched under populated because the ships officers were following approved standards as to the safe weight of lifeboats, no one had thought to tell them that a higher grade of steel had been used in the davits. I have seen some studies that suggest that even if the extra lifeboats had been in place many of them could not have been launched before the angle of the ship was such as to make it impossible. BTW One study also suggests that if the Titanic had not attempted avoiding action (ie had hit the berg head on) fewer wt compartments would have been breached and she might have stayed afloat.

The point I was actually trying to make is that any one any time who knows that carbon monoxide is being fed into a populated space and refuses to take action to try to stop it is downright barking mad.