[TheForge] FW: [The_Anvil] Dont put your tongue on a frozen anvil

[Schade]

article here....

http://www.disastercity.com/titanic/index.shtml



On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:37 PM, Ries Niemi wrote:

>
> Actually, there is a famous story about Liberty ships in WW2- several 
> of them broke right in half in arctic waters, running supplies to 
> Murmansk.
> It turns out that the cold, along with the motion of the waves, caused 
> them to change stucture enough that with the welding techniques they 
> were using, the boats just fell apart.
> As I remember, different welding techniques solved this problem- maybe 
> someone knows the real story.
>
> ries
>