An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own Lifeboat
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Published three months after the sinking of the Titanic, this is the rarest and the most learned of the early books on the disaster. In it, the crusading editor of the Scientific American magazine argues forcefully that passenger safety had been repeatedly sacrificed in the competition for luxury and speed between the great shipping lines, and that the Titanic was much less safe than the Great Eastern, a ship launched more than 50 years previously. Here you'll find the first published explanation of why the Titanic’s low bulkheads were insufficient to stop the flooding, how more lifeboats coul...
Chapters (121)
- AN UNSINKABLE TITANIC
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II THE EVER-PRESENT DANGERS OF THE SEA
- CHAPTER III EVERY SHIP ITS OWN LIFEBOAT
- CHAPTER IV SAFETY LIES IN SUBDIVISION
- CHAPTER V THE UNSINKABLE GREAT EASTERN OF 1858
- CHAPTER VI THE SINKABLE TITANIC
- CHAPTER VII HOW THE GREAT SHIP WENT DOWN
- CHAPTER VIII WARSHIP PROTECTION AGAINST RAM, MINE, AND TORPEDO
- CHAPTER IX WARSHIP PROTECTION AS APPLIED TO SOME OCEAN LINERS
- CHAPTER X CONCLUSIONS
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