Talk:Professionalism/The Sinking of the Titanic

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Can we check all this? The Wikipedia page on Titanic lists a gross register tonnage (GRT) of 46,328. This is not the weight of the ship! This is the enclosed volume of the ship, divided by 100 cubic feet. The weight of the ship is the displacement tonnage, 52,310, according to Wikipedia. Some sources quote a displacement tonnage of 66,000. My source quotes a GRT of 45,328. The displacement tons are long tons, 2240lb. Displacement tonnages can be empty or full, so those two numbers actually are reasonable. One of the GRTs probably is a typo, but that could be my source. My understanding is that Titanic was designed to survive with any two adjacent holds opened up, or with the first four holds opened up. I don't have a reference for this at hand. it appears she met specifications, and I do not know if modern specifications are any better. Titanic suffered a freak accident in which the iceberg gently grazed the side of the iceberg for an unsurvivably long distance. A head-on impact would have been more destructive, but survivable. Like the World Trade Centre towers, if you damage something enough, it will fail. JHowardGibson (discuss • contribs) 19:54, 4 November 2020 (UTC)