historical speculation

I just randomly thought of this I would like your opinion please

This is a follow up to What if the 4th Olympic-class ocean liner had been built? In a alternative universe, White Star Line decides to build a replacement sister ship for Titanic. She is named "Germanic" and is nearly identical to Britannic. She starts construction in late 1912, and is...

I was rewatching some wreck exploration footage and had a what-if thought. Several teak pieces still survive to this day on the ship. What if the grand staircase had been made entirely of teak rather than oak? Would it have survived? Or would it still have broken up?

After the loss of Titanic in 1912, White Star Line planned a replacement sister ship for her. While the replacement vessel would have incorporated the post-Titanic improvements and likely resembled Britannic, thus also be able to survive the same scenario that sank Titanic, it had no official...

I was reading some general facts about the size of the SS Californian today and it got me thinking. Hypothetically speaking, let’s say the Californian did respond to the Titanic’s distress signals in a timely manner. How much of a difference would it have made? It only had a capacity of 102...

Hello everyone, if they had seen the iceberg in time and avoided the collision succesfully, what would they have done next? Stop all the machines and rested for the entire night, or would Smith still have ordered to continue with “low speed”? Would the thought of having “almost” collided with...

I just had the thought that if Carpathia didn't come what would've happened. so here is a post for it. if the every ships captain thought Titanic's distress signals was a joke, would everyone that was on titanic have died? or would the people who work at the telegraph offices wonder why titanic...

If Andrews hadn't been on board, would anyone have even known that the Titanic would sink? I ask because from the testimony of Rostron at the hearings, it's pretty clear the captains were not well versed in naval architecure/engineering Senator SMITH. The fact that, under these regulations, you...

I think that most people have questions like these. I could compile several more but here are a few to start with. My "what if" Titanic questions concern: What would be the best option for survival with the 20-20 hindsight of over a hundred years. For example could the ship have reversed to...

Hi y'all. Earlier today a friend showed me a picture, photoshopped, of Titanic being towed back after hitting the iceberg head on. That made me think of this: how much worse would the rate of flooding be if Titanic's Double Bottom was punctured/compromised? Would the flooding be widespread...

As we all know, Henry Wilde became the chief officer of the Titanic just days before the Titanic left Southampton, which caused William Murdoch and Charles Lightoller to become demoted from their officer ranks, and David Blair had to leave the ship, taking the keys to the binoculars with him...

So I'm wondering what you guys think would have happened if the stern somehow manage to stay afloat. I for onw think that they would have either towed it to New York for scrapping or tow it back to Liverpool to get the forward part rebuilt. I'm also wondering how it would have altered the amount...

There's a thread here asking if you could save one additional victim, but I want to go much further and save a lot more. If you had the chance to save 150 more people from Titanic...who would you save? For me I would save: Chief Officer Wilde, First Officer Murdoch, Sixth Officer Lowe, Chief...

if you arrived at 11:40, after the collision, without immediately making for a lifeboat, or interfering in events, what would you do? (please don't delete this, this is a slightly different question)

All other key considerations remaining the same - Fleet, Lee, Murdoch, Moody etc in exactly the same places they were at the time; Lee spots the iceberg exactly at the same distance as he actually did - but Smith had ordered the Titanic to be slowed down to 12 knots a couple of hours earlier...

Here's my theory. I call it the Even Keel Theory: The Titanic is heavily listing to port and the bridge is just beginning to go under. The forces acting upon the hull cause it to twist. The Titanic starts to buckle. The boilers in boiler room #2 implode. This creates a shockwave that fractures...

What effects would this have on Titanic in the popular consensus inn the future years to come? How would it affect White Star Line and Harland and Wolff's reputations? How would an acceptance of the break up affect the way Titanic movies are made?

Hello, everybody. We all know that Bruce Ismay and Thomas Andrews were the masterminds behind the construction of the Titanic, and played a large role during the voyage and sinking of the Titanic, and how in the end, Thomas Andrews doing down with the ship, and Bruce Ismay survived in...

I often wonder about the Olympic and often think what a huge tourist attraction it might have been if its builders had the hind sight to see its historical significance and it hadn't been scrapped. Could you imagine? Its hard to.

What if the Great Eastern had been a successful venture which made her owners rich? Would she have influenced other ships afterward to be even bigger then they eventually became in our timeline? And how would world shipping be changed: if at all, by her success?