"Joe" wrote in message
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The_navigator© wrote in message
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Steel? Irish?


Yeah Steel rivits annealed and made in Belfast and applied to the hull
at Harland & Woff Shipyard in Belfast Ireland. Thats the place where
the Titanic was made BTW.

The steel hull plates where made by D. Colville & Co from Scotland.

Most experts think the rivits failed at the head loads, allowing seams
to rip open on the Titanics hull. Many think the same flawed riviting
might have doomed the HMS Hood.

I don't think so, Joe. The Germans dropped a 16" shell right down into her
main magazine and the resulting explosion sealed her fate whtever the rivits
might have been. HMS Hood was not a battleship but a battle cruiser with
relatively light armour to allow a very high top speed so a direct hit in a
vital area was her undoing.