Re: boat propulsion - miniature computer-controlled steam plant?

Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:...
Intense interest in Titanic, especially after discovery revealed many wrong
assumptions, has made much more detailed information on ship design,
construction and operation of the time available than for other vessels with
less dramatic and unexplained fates. Eyewitness accounts vary substantially
for an event where unlike a crime most had nothing to hide.
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This is an example of both the thorough degree of modern analysis and inconsistent witness testimony:
https://www.titanicology.com/Titanica/Two-Points-in-Thirty-Seven-Seconds.pdf
6th officer Moody's job was to see and report that helmsman (Quartermaster) Hitchens did as ordered, as Hitchens was in a shuttered booth that allowed him to have lighted instruments without disturbing the bridge crews' night vision. Murdoch the watch officer may have seen the iceberg before the crow's nest lookouts (Fleet) since it would have extended above the horizon for him but not them. Much later another officer claimed that Hitchens had turned the wheel the wrong way at first. It's all a challenging puzzle.
The aft-most observed hull leak was slightly aft of the bulkhead halfway between the first and second funnels, though water rose a little faster than the pumps could manage in the next compartment aft.
Putting engines astern would include bypassing the turbine whose propeller washed over the rudder and boosted its effect. No engine room officers survived to testify, they struggled until the sudden breakup to keep the lights on.