What if Lusitania had not sunk

[Brent Holt]

>>The Titanic also turned in the wrong way, more like a car than a ship. <<

Obviously I need to clarify my earlier statement. What I meant was that movies tend to show ships turning more like a car would then a sea going vessel. When the hard to port order was given, the bow would turn to port and the stern to starboard. It is never really shown this way.

 

[Martin Owen Cahill]

Is it possible the Iceberg may have been kept close to Titanic's stern by the same hydrodynamic that drew the HMS Hawke into the stern of the Olympic?

just a thought.

cheers

Martin

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>Is it possible the Iceberg may have been kept close to Titanic's stern by the same hydrodynamic that drew the HMS Hawke into the stern of the Olympic?<<

Depends on exactly where the ship was and how she was oriented in relation to the berg. Given the actual nature and extent of the damage, the manner in which it is commonly believed that she manuevered is suspect in the extreme.

 

[Chad Goodwin]

most new superliners have those huge galleries of open foyers.....open from the top deck to the bottom.....that would have to effect the sinking too

 

[George L. Lorton]

What if Lusitania had not sunk? Well we would of still probably ended up in the War because of other boats being torpedoed and the Zimmerman Telegram! The Lusi would gone on to a career much like her sister the Mauritania!

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>Well we would of still probably ended up in the War because of other boats being torpedoed and the Zimmerman Telegram! <<

I'm inclined to think of that as a near dead certainty. For all the outrage in the USA, the whole affair was a blip on the radar screen which passed into oblivion as quickly as it burst on the scene. In other words, we got over it, at least until the time of our entry into the war, after which it made for a wonderful rallying cry!

 

[Brent Holt]

One interesting thought is would Cunard have still gotten the Imperator/Berengaria? Many in the U.S. very much wanted her to run with the Leviathan. White Star may have also made a claim for both Imperator and Bismarck.
Or perhaps Cunard would still have acquired Imperator and reassigned Lusitania or Mauretania to the Liverpool run after the express service was moved to Southampton?

 

[Martin Owen Cahill]

The Imperator acquisition was, I think, purely as compensation for the Lusitania. As to value ship for ship, was the Imperator a better deal?

Kent would be well placed to comment,
I do know that the Berengaria went to scrap before the Mauretania.

 

[Brent Holt]

The Mauretania went to the scrappers in 1935 (And was pulled from service in 1934 just after the Cunard White Star merger) and the Berengaria in 1938.
In general I consider the Imperator Class to be superior to the Lusitania Class and Olympic Class. The Berengaria, Leviathan and Majestic beat the Mauretania in popularity by a decent margin and were more luxurious vessels.
If Cunard had still acquired Imperator, then I suspect Lusitania or Mauretania would have been reassigned to another service since only 3 ships were needed for the Southampton-New York express run.

 

[George L. Lorton]

If Cunard had still acquired Imperator, then I suspect Lusitania or Mauritania would have been reassigned to another service since only 3 ships were needed for the Southampton-New York express run.

I think that's a safe bet! Maybe the least kept up or oldest would of been consigned to the Mediterranean run?

Maybe they would of had one of the ships work a South American Run? I wonder what ships Cunard had working the South American run after the War?

 

[Mark Baber]

I wonder what ships Cunard had working the South American run after the War?

None; according to Bonsor's South Atlantic Seaway and Haws' Merchant Fleets Cunard didn't have a South American service.

 

[George L. Lorton]

Thanks Mark,

Then they could of used the Lusitania or Mauritania for a South American run and made some money! Folks were going there! It had it's immigrants as well!

 

[Haowei Shi]

If it didn't sink,it would be scrapped.If not,they would change the inside.Like make the boiler burn oil or other liquid fuels instead of coal.They could remove the dummy funnel,too.

Haowei
FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!

 

[Ioannis Georgiou]

>>They could remove the dummy funnel,too.<<

Lusitania had no dummy funnel! All 4 were used for the smoke of the boiler rooms.

 

[Martin Owen Cahill]

with one boiler room shut down it could create the appearance a dummy funnel like one on Titanic.

Taking one of these things into warmer climes would be interesting. Troops from Australia and New Zealand suffered the heat below deck on Queen Mary and she was more modern than the Lusitania class trio.