Engineering Analysis of Titanic's Construction and Sister Ships
A video by engineering professor Bill Hammack explores the construction of the RMS Titanic and its sister ships Olympic and Britannic. Using historical documents from The Engineer journal published between 1909-1911, Hammack details the massive scale of these White Star Line vessels, including their three million rivets, 52,000-ton weight, and daily coal consumption. The video also notes that Olympic survived a collision and served for decades, while Britannic sank in 1916, contrasting with Titanic's famous 1912 iceberg disaster.
Key facts
- Bill Hammack, an engineering professor at University of Illinois, created a video analyzing Titanic's construction
- The video uses photographs from The Engineer journal published 1909-1911 showing Titanic and Olympic being built
- Titanic was one of three White Star Line ships completed in early 1910s along with Olympic and Britannic
- Each ship required three million rivets and weighed 52,000 tons when fully fitted
- Olympic survived a collision and served nearly 25 years while Britannic sank in 1916 and Titanic sank in 1912
Entities
Institutions
- White Star Line
- University of Illinois