Question:
According to Walter Lord, someone in the second class smoking room put some of the ice from the berg into his drink. Did this or any of the other fooling around with bits of ice really happen?

Answer: It didn't. Foreward well deck, definitely; part of foc'sle, maybe...

But I doubt it was as much as people think; just a scattering, IMO. Most of the 'grinding' was going on closer to the waterline. If any went on higher up the hull, don't you think we would have seen some damage on the wreck (if rust and/or buckling didn't cover it up)?

..yeah, I know the lower hull was colder; and so forth...

TW (*T*itanic *W*isdom, variant of CW) says the ratlines & rigging swept ice off onto the well deck...hmm, must have been some slushy ice, or some *tough* ratlines...

I don't think anyone put the ice

It may be useful here to give some definitions of the various forms of ice to be met with in these latitudes, although there is frequently some confusion in their use.

An Iceberg may be defined as a detached portion of a Polar glacier carried out to sea. The ice of an iceberg formed from a glacier is of quite fresh water, only about an eighth of its mass floats above the surface of sea water.

A "Growler" is a colloquial term applied to icebergs of small mass, which therefore only show a small portion above the surface. It is not infrequently a berg which has turned over, and is therefore showing what has been termed "black ice," or more correctly, dark blue ice.

Pack Ice is the floating ice which covers wide areas of the polar seas, broken into large pieces, which are driven ("packed") together by wind and current, so as to form a practically continuous sheet. Such ice is generally frozen from seawater, and not derived from glaciers.

Field Ice is a term usually applied to frozen sea water floating in much looser form than pack ice.