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Farmwelding wrote:
electrode wrote:Chinese steel. :o
So British ship, Irish workers, Chinese steel-steel is thin and cheap, fire in the belly of the ship, hit an iceberg and boom sunken ship.

only one question...why Chinese steel. China was not a large steel manufacturer from 1910-1912 during the building of the ship and it would have been British steel, seeing that Britain was the largest manufacturer at the time of steel. So what can we learn? British steel is bad...maybe?
Metallurgy was not advanced enough to anticipate the problem of the steel weakening in the extremely cold water.
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I couldn't imagine wooden ships and what they did in cold water. Those joints have to be strong as hell to resist the shrinkage in the cold and then expanding in the sun. These people are far better craftsman than I probably ever will be. Hand cut joints and figuring all the complex joinery without metal devices with just a pad and pen.
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In the era of wooden ships a pen would have been a luxury item. Probably pencils or charred sticks.
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My mom used to live near a place where they shredded up the offcuts from sawmills, and even entire logs, to make hardwood mulch for gardens. They used machines to push this shredded wood up into tall (20' high) piles, and they had automatic sprinklers to wet it down. Every time I drove past that place you could see the heat and steam coming up off the piles. You could also smell it.

I suspect that, just like with compost heaps, there were bacteria that were "digesting" the mulch, and the heat of their metabolism is what made the piles of mulch give off so much heat and steam. And I think the automatic sprinklers were important not just to give the bacteria the water they needed to live, but also to prevent the piles from catching on fire.
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