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![]() "Joe" wrote in message om... The_navigator© wrote in message ... 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. |
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