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

Question

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

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Answer 1

What a lot of these answers are missing, is that the hull was not a solid wall of steel. Ships were made of thousands of steel plates that were riveted together. The steel only buckled when it hit the berg, but it was enough to separate the seams and pop the rivets.