Pretty analogy. Lousy but pretty.

This Titanic bumped into the dock when coming into port at All Ahead Slow. And it hit so softly that the bow of the ship wasn't hurt. But the Titanic's engines were broken off their motor mounts.

Just think, if the firewall had been made of good plywood the engine wouldn't have punched a clean little hole in the firewall. Since the cowl was strong enough to stop the damage after that centerpunch, wonder why the whole nose didn't break off. I'd suggest that if the cowl was strong enough to stop further damage, there is an excellent argument that the impact wasn't great enough that is should have caused the firewall wood to fail. But since it did, there's a pretty good argument that this Titanic's motor mounts were from inadequate materials.