Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Shipyard That Built Titanic: Harland u0026 Wolff" video.

Titanic sank because of a collision with an iceberg, and Britannic because she was mined in wartime. Neither cause suggested any flaw in design.
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@MacAdvisor Nonsense. Were the Mauretanias a flawed design because 50% of them were sunk by torpedo? Stats. are meaningless without a reasonable number of subjects. Many ships sank following collisions with ice. One as recently as 2007. In WW1, over 500 British merchant ships, 44 warships, and 225 naval auxiliaries were sunk by mining. Please don't be such a fool.
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@MacAdvisor The numbers you are talking about are statistically viable, in that they are in their thousands. Three is not a statistically viable number. Are you seriously too obsessed to grasp that?
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@MacAdvisor Perhaps Olympic, like Mauretania & Aquitania, actually survived because of the soundness of her design? Board of Trade regulations (the ones you wrongly say did not exist) stated any ship over 10,000 tons must have four water tight bulkheads three and half feet above the waterline giving them five compartments. The Olympics well exceeded the figure by a long way with fifteen bulkheads, each extending ten feet above the waterline. Instead of making false claims, why not simply look them up for yourself? They were outdated, I agree, but they were the regulations which applied when the Olympics (and the Mauretanias) were designed and built. 'Portholes with automatic closing were available as they were patented about ten years previously.' Very good, but that was not what I asked. As I wrote, name any liner, or even any warship, which actually had been fitted with such devices. The fact that something might have been patented does not mean that it was practicable.
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@MacAdvisor Just as Olympic had a 24 year career until, at the same time as Mauretania, she was withdrawn from service when still, also like Mauretania, in good condition. Just as, without the intervention of unforseeable events, the other three, Lusitania, Titanic, & Britannic, might be expected to have had equally long careers.
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@MacAdvisor If the steel & rivets used to build Titanic were 'not suitable for the cold North Atlantic' how was it that her sister was able to sail those same waters without problem for 23 years, when she had been built of the same materials? The compartments were higher than Board of Trade regulations required. The designers of the Olympics intended her to be able to survive with four of them compromised. The loss of six was totally unpredictable, and unsurvivable. Can you name any ship of the period with portholes which automatically closed?
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She sank because six of the watertight compartments were compromised.
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But when did one last sail into the Atlantic?!
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