"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 an enclosed booth that allowed
him to have lighted instruments without disturbing the bridge watch
officers' night vision. Murdoch was the watch officer and may have seen the
iceberg before the lookouts 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.