ash briers
Member
hi, i'm wondering how many rivets were on the titanic, i would really like to know how many there were on the port side and starboard side and any where else.
Titanic's rivets
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Michael H. Standart
Member
About three million. I don't think anybody has counted down to the last rivet head how many there were on a given side but if you split the difference, I doubt you'ed go too far wrong.
James Alexander Carlisle
Member
Sorry, I'm so late in posting here for this question.
There were 3,0850,000, divided all over the ship. Not all were the same dimension or the same spec. Different areas had different specifications.
There were 3,0850,000, divided all over the ship. Not all were the same dimension or the same spec. Different areas had different specifications.
david wilson
Member
jim,I hope you've put the "," in the wrong place!
regards,
seven degrees west.
dw.
regards,
seven degrees west.
dw.
James Alexander Carlisle
Member
Hello David,
Dead right, it should have been 3,085,000 rivets.
Good to hear from you.
Dead right, it should have been 3,085,000 rivets.
Good to hear from you.
Michael Cundiff
Member
...and to think RMSTI roughly retrieved only about 30 for the composition test of slag. BTW, I had the opportunity to see a large one on display at the Tropicana in Las Vegas, along with L-brackets and other various pieces of steel.
Mike Cundiff
NV, USA
Mike Cundiff
NV, USA
James Alexander Carlisle
Member
Yes, only 30! Not all had too much slag either. Most likely those were rivets with different specifications from the ones used on the super structure.
This is what the New York Times quoted from me in April this year.
The same rivets are installed on SS Nomadic and they look good.
This is what the New York Times quoted from me in April this year.
The same rivets are installed on SS Nomadic and they look good.
Trevor Rommelley
Guest
Doesn't matter if they "look good." The point is, are they any good?
Michael Cundiff
Member
Roy Cullimore (RMSTI forensic expedition member) made a statement that of the 30 retrieved, some had high contents of slag.
I feel it all had to do with cost cuts, yet on the other hand you have R.M.S. OLYMPIC, and as James pointed out NOMADIC.
Mike Cundiff
NV, USA
I feel it all had to do with cost cuts, yet on the other hand you have R.M.S. OLYMPIC, and as James pointed out NOMADIC.
Mike Cundiff
NV, USA
James Alexander Carlisle
Member
The ones with higher slag would be in places that do not need such a high strength.
Some people do not realize that it is the specification which decides what strength of material is required for different areas.
"Are they any good." You don't know anyone who has worked in Harland & Wolff, do you?
Ask David!
Some people do not realize that it is the specification which decides what strength of material is required for different areas.
"Are they any good." You don't know anyone who has worked in Harland & Wolff, do you?
Ask David!
James Alexander Carlisle
Member
Mike,
The Thompson Dry Dock are riveted with the same material as Olympic, Titanic and Nomadic.
The Thompson Dry Dock are riveted with the same material as Olympic, Titanic and Nomadic.
James Alexander Carlisle
Member
Please delete ",View Image" on the link and you will see the rivets on Nomadic.
Michael H. Standart
Member
>>Doesn't matter if they "look good." The point is, are they any good?<<
Good enough that they're still there after nearly a century, most of that in the water. The rivets on the Titanic are good enough that most of them remained right where the riveters put them even after a 30+ knot collision with the ocean's bottom.
There's a lot of sound and fury over the materials that the ship was built of which may not be entirely misplaced in some instances. The problem with all of that is that it's over-rated. Absent the interaction with an iceberg, and through hull damage along the ship's length which no vessel could survive, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
Good enough that they're still there after nearly a century, most of that in the water. The rivets on the Titanic are good enough that most of them remained right where the riveters put them even after a 30+ knot collision with the ocean's bottom.
There's a lot of sound and fury over the materials that the ship was built of which may not be entirely misplaced in some instances. The problem with all of that is that it's over-rated. Absent the interaction with an iceberg, and through hull damage along the ship's length which no vessel could survive, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
Trevor Rommelley
Guest
The original poster said "they looked good." "Looking" is irrelevant, its the quality that counts. If the original poster has said "they are still good" then great, but an opinion of aesthetic attractiveness is irrelevant.
Michael H. Standart
Member
>>its the quality that counts.<<
And I've addressed that issue. The rivets are good enough on the Nomadic to have survived this long. The rivets on the Titanic were good enough that they survived anything except human fallibility, and the vast majority of them survived even that.
And I've addressed that issue. The rivets are good enough on the Nomadic to have survived this long. The rivets on the Titanic were good enough that they survived anything except human fallibility, and the vast majority of them survived even that.
