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Message: [QUOTE="walter hojka, post: 104334, member: 146260"] How The Titanic Broke Apart: As the bow took on water the ship began to bend and the double bottom took on a slightly curved shape. This curve was relatively uniform with one important exception: the hull underneath the reciprocating steam engines which were large cast pieces firmly bolted to the ships bottom. These engines did not bend, nor did the double bottom beneath them. This created a kink in the bend of the bottom at the forward end of the engine room. The first rivets to shear were those in the keel at the point where the engines were pulling the bottom up and over the bottom section of boiler room no.1. Once there was sufficient rupture of the bottom the engine room floor slid up and over the floor of boiler room no.1 shearing those boilers from there beds and crumpling in the bottom of the ship. The breakup of the ship likely was the result of the ship reaching its tipping point. The bow was quickly picking up downward momentum which delivered added stress amidships and broke Titanic's back. Ultimately the bow lost momentum due to water resistance and reversed the break ripping the ship in two. It is like a brittle piece of metal which will bend one way, but snaps in two when bent back the other way. The upper decks would have been the last to separate. Perhaps that long stringy piece of boat deck still attached to the stern was the last piece to pull apart. Walter Hojka The Steel Doesn't Lie [center]<table border=1>[tr][td][ATTACH=full]13327[/ATTACH]breakup [url="https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/296633/MGY-Image_writer-135472.unk"][b]MGY-Image writer.EPS[/b][/url] (16.7 k)[/td][/tr][/table][/center] [/QUOTE]

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