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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A sheet of ice a foot thick is strong enough to drive a car on. The iceberg was hundreds of feet thick, and weighed around a million pounds. The ship might have won if it was a solid chunk of steel, but an inch thick skin of steel loses to hundreds of feet of ice.

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