Real reason Titanic sank
THE Titanic sank two hours before help arrived because its bow and stern were bolted together with weak wrought-iron rivets, a new documentary will reveal.
More than 1,500 passengers and crew lost their lives after the “unsinkable” liner hit an iceberg during its maiden voyage
late at night on April 14, 1912.
A new study has revealed 16 different factors which contributed to the biggest peacetime maritime disaster in history.
The Unsinkable Titanic, on Channel 4 tomorrow, will claim specifically that the liner could have stayed afloat until the rescue ship Carpathia arrived if it had been constructed with steel rivets.
Instead of “best best” quality, builders at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast selected only “best” wrought-iron quality.
Metallurgist Jennifer Hooper McCarty said last night: “The implications are astounding. Lives would have been saved but for their choice on a very small, but critical detail.”
Harland and Wolff says there was “absolutely nothing wrong with the Titanic’s construction or materials used”.
