Nav wrote:
At that time the reliability of the turbine was in question so that the
plant was designed to run without it indefinitely.

Oh really? Perhaps you can produce a reference to that?

Doesn't matter, steam turbines had been in service for some years
before. It wasn't an issue of reliability *at all*. The issue was cost.
The Royal Navy subsidized the construction of the Mauretania and the
Lusitania, both of which were in service several years before the
Olympic & Titanic were designed. Another smaller issue Harlan & Wolff's
relative inexperience with an all-turbine plant of that size.


... If I recall, the
bearings proved to be a problem on a sister ship.

Care to produce a cite on that? Or did you just pull that out of thin
air, like almost everything else you've said so far in this thread and
many others?

Next you'll be claiming that you know more about the Constit... oops, I
mean the Titanic's steam plant than anybody else!

The real question: why am I bothering to attempt a discussion with such
a loony-tunes?

DSK