How did a piece of ice cut through the solid steel hull of the Titanic?

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How did a piece of ice cut through the solid steel hull of the Titanic?

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Wasn’t solid steel hull, not by far. Steel plates riveted together, and as the top comment (atm) says, the force needed to move the iceberg was (or would have been) greater than what it took to break the rivets.

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