What did the collision feel like?
The collision felt differently to various observers, depending on their location in the Ship. For those far from the impact, the sensation was “a faint, grinding jar”, or a rumble like “gliding over a thousand marbles”, or a loss of momentum like a train arriving at a station. Some of the crew who had been on the Olympic when she lost a propeller blade assumed that the shudder was for the same reason, necessitating a trip back to the builders yard. Passengers and crew closer to the impact felt the collision more violently, and in at least one instance, ice shaved from the iceberg in the collision fell into a passenger cabin through the open porthole.
