"Muddymike" wrote in message
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On May 4, 8:34 pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:
Nightjar wrote





harry wrote
Dave Liquorice wrote
harry wrote
I'd assume that they would vent the steam and douse the fires
beforethat stage. Certainly Jack Phillips, the Titanics radio
operator, was sending messages that he couldn't read other
stations
due to steam and air noise.


And how would you "douse the fires"? You would close the dampers but
the
fires would take hours to burn the tons of coal in there.
The fires would have been raked out onto the boiler room floor.

Where they would have produced quite a bit of steam when the water came
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How does cold water cause a steam explosion?



Try pouring water onto some hot coals.

You've mangled the attributions very badly.