Dear All,
It's a bit interesting that this is making news ten years after this
theory was
proposed and tested, convincingly, I might add. People may find interest in
these two links which give the Titanic story from ten years ago.
Enjoy!
Tom Fenn
http://www.metallurgy.nist.gov/webpages/TFoecke/titanic/Titanic.pdf
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9801/Felkins-9801.html
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Thomas R. Fenn
Department of Anthropology
University of Arizona
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P.O. Box 210030
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
http://anthro.web.arizona.edu/people/student_details.php?id=348
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Quoting Mark Hall <[log in to unmask]>:
> This may be of interest to a few folks...
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> Best, MEH
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> Study says bad rivets helped sink the Titanic
> William J. Broad, New York Times
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> Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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> Scientists have discovered that the builder of the Titanic struggled for
> years to obtain enough rivets and riveters and ultimately settled on
> faulty materials that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago today.
>
> The builder's own archive, the two scientists say, harbors evidence of a
> deadly mix of low-quality rivets and lofty ambition as the builder
> labored to construct the world's three biggest ships at once - the
> Titanic and two sisters, Olympic and Britannic.
>
> For a decade, scientists have argued that the storied liner went down
> fast after hitting the iceberg because the ship's builder used
> substandard rivets that popped their heads and let tons of icy seawater
> rush in. More than 1,500 people died.
>
> When the safety of the rivets was first questioned 10 years ago, the
> builder ignored the accusation and said it did not have an archivist who
> could address the issue. Historians say that the new evidence uncovered
> in the archive of Harland & Wolff, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, settles
> the argument and finally solves the riddle of one of the most famous
> sinkings of all time. The company now insists that the findings are
> deeply flawed.
>
> rest at
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/15/MN9N105E0U.DTL&hw=Titanic&sn=001&sc=1000
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