[modeleng] Re: Rivet forensics
- From: <bede@xxxxxxx>
- To: "modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:41:21 +0000
The battleships Florida (BB30) and New York (BB34) were launched from the
Brooklyn Navy yard in 1910 and 1912 respectively, close to the
Titanic's launch year (1912). These "BBs" were dreadnoughts, so I
imagine of iron hulled construction, though with steel armor belts.=20
Further research needed to know the quality of the iron and the type of
rivets (iron or steel). Seems a lot of the world was held together by
hand-fastened rivets back then. That NY Times article mentioned the
Titanic and her sisters each had three million rivets holding them
together!
-Bede
On 4/15/2008, "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Out of curiosity, what material was the Brooklyn Navy
>Yard using at that time?
>
>Al
>--- bede@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>> Hardly a model, but certainly related to the field,
>> this article claims
>> to solve the riddle of the sinking of the Titanic.=20
>> And I always thought
>> it hit an iceberg...
>>=20
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15titanic.html?pagewanted=3D3D1&_r=
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>> 1&hp
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>> mid-30sF and
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