Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Naval Engineering - The False Dawn of Iron Ships" video.

  1. A moment in history most Britons & Canadians still grin at the mention of 😂
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  2. @colinhunt4057  Precisely. The level of mental gymnastics the US went to post-1815 to not make it look like they picked an opportunistic fight and narrowly dodged getting kerbstomped for no gain... is hilarious 😂 . Goes without saying that quite a few US politicians had career's to save after that debacle, thus a reason to be distortionist
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  3. Sort of. The Titanic was the victim of a laundry list of occurances, with one or two less factors likely resulting in her simply being damaged at sea (as initial news reports thought had occured) or had a near miss.
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  4. ​@chrissouthgate4554 Interesting point, as it's easy to think Welding just solves all the issues with riveted construction... when in reality some remain while others are replaced with new issues. As it was, problems with Welding also affected the Kriegsmarine. The problem was that the technology was still new to the industry, and thus all the characteristics it had in contact with the sea were unknown. The aerospace industry would hit the same snag with metal fatigue on high altitude airliners postwar, among other issues inherent to new technology and material uses 🤔 . Heck: we're still finding out new snippets of materials science now, that long went under our noses. (until the 1980's nobody knew [as far as records suggest] that fire could "lie down" and explosively spread up in an uphill tunnel of certain shapes, in what was swiftly named the Trench Effect)
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  5. Aye. There's been a project looking into building a replica of her in Bristol, the last time I checked. If I was a millionaire with some spare quid, reconstitution of both of the SS Great Britain's siblings ala-replica would be a satisfying public service to maritime history 😌👌 . (though the Great Eastern would go to London as a home port, as the latter built her originally [the largest vessel ever built on the Thames, despite them also building an Orion class Battleship in the following century 😆])
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