[possibly because there were two steering systems in use, one for sail and one for steam ships]
Previous scholarship had believed that one decisive factor in this event to be the dead calm which prevented the formation of breakers, but Louise Patten has claimed in a newspaper interview that a contributing factor in this event was Robert Hitchens turning the wrong way in a moment of panic. [possibly because there were two steering systems in use, one for sail and one for steam ships] Other known contributors to this event include the moonless night and the fact that Reginald Lee and Frederick Fleet did not have binoculars. Patten claims that this event was accelerated by J. Bruce Ismay telling Edward Smith to go "slow ahead" instead of stopping, though her grandfather Charles Lightoller kept that a secret. The Carpathia arrived an hour and a half after this event. Already-insufficient lifeboats weren't even filled to capacity during, for 10 points, what event caused by a large ship's iceberg strike on April 14, 1912?
Previous scholarship had believed that one decisive factor in this event to be the dead calm which prevented the formation of breakers, but Louise Patten has claimed in a newspaper interview that a contributing factor in this event was Robert Hitchens turning the wrong way in a moment of panic.
the sinking of the RMS Titanic [accept clear-knowledge equivalents]