But she can stay afloat with 4 and if the 5th one can be delayed if damage is minor like OTL sixth , could it be possible to delay the sinking maybe an 1 hour or 1 hour and half or a little more? on the one hand they only started launching life boats 1 hour in to the sinking if they have more time as you said maybe the lifeboats leave more full, still I forget how much it took Carpathia to arrive but maybe they they can arrive just as its the ship is sinking in this scenario.That wouldn't change much. Perhaps more people could be saved but the ship still would go to bottom with horribly high numbers of victims. Since few chambers are filled by water it is good bye to the ship.
was it 3:30 or 4 any way, In this case with one less compartment damaged can they delay the sinking for just long enough that the ship goes under right around when Carpathia arrives to the scene if so can she do anything to save the people in the waterCarpathia arrived at approximately 3:30 am. The Titanic had sunk more than an hour earlier.
Doubtful if the damage is still in the same pattern. Titanic's watertight design could have allowed for more compartments to be compromised, providing the damage wasn't continuous as was the case when she sank. With five breached compartments, (six were damaged in the event not counting potential damage to her bottom which was reported but couldn't be checked in the time available) the water is overflowing the doors into each rear compartment. She spent nearly an hour at almost the same angle once Boiler Room 5 flooded as the forward compartments filled to capacity. After that, the rate increased rapidly in the last 45 minutes to an hour.was it 3:30 or 4 any way, In this case with one less compartment damaged can they delay the sinking for just long enough that the ship goes under right around when Carpathia arrives to the scene if so can she do anything to save the people in the water
The damage allowed a water infill at a rate 15 times beyond Titanic's ability to pump it out. I can't believe that enough of the hull could have been repaired before the flooding became a foregone conclusion.What might help is attempting actual damage control. Surely they could have fothered the bottom with the hatch covers.
The damage allowed a water infill at a rate 15 times beyond Titanic's ability to pump it out. I can't believe that enough of the hull could have been repaired before the flooding became a foregone conclusion.
Imaged the question of this scenario been that Titanic has the same OTL damage to 4 forward compartments and minor damages to the fifth like the OTL sixth damage so basically the same as the actual damage but with one less compartment damaged, so Boiler room 6 gets the damage boiler room 5 got and Boiler room 5 is intact, but since Im really not a nautical engineer Im quite surprised by you saying one less compartment not getting damaged would not have bought that much time, especially if the damage to boiler room 6 in this timeline would be no were near as bad.Doubtful if the damage is still in the same pattern. Titanic's watertight design could have allowed for more compartments to be compromised, providing the damage wasn't continuous as was the case when she sank. With five breached compartments, (six were damaged in the event not counting potential damage to her bottom which was reported but couldn't be checked in the time available) the water is overflowing the doors into each rear compartment. She spent nearly an hour at almost the same angle once Boiler Room 5 flooded as the forward compartments filled to capacity. After that, the rate increased rapidly in the last 45 minutes to an hour.
Carpathia didn't arrive until well after 4. Another compartment to fill from scratch (say Boiler Room 5) would perhaps have bought a few minutes, but the effect is still the same. By the time she can reach the scene, most if not all are still dead, just for a shorter period of time.
I dont think you can really stuff anything soft into holes in ships that deep or large? Are the forces involved not very large....... we are talking maybe putting something large like a canvas hatch cover on the outside to get sucked in but pushing against the water would be next to impossible apart from maybe with hitting in wood in small holes but even then low down deep in the hull the flow in would be strong? She had a draught of 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m) so damage low down is going to be maybe 8m underwater?Did they try do any damage control to stem the inflow of water? Such as stuffing bedding (pillows/blankets) into the holes in the hull
I dont think you can really stuff anything soft into holes in ships that deep or large? Are the forces involved not very large....... we are talking maybe putting something large like a canvas hatch cover on the outside to get sucked in but pushing against the water would be next to impossible apart from maybe with hitting in wood in small holes but even then low down deep in the hull the flow in would be strong? She had a draught of 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m) so damage low down is going to be maybe 8m underwater?