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Montague, whose boyhood, adolescent, and adult hero was Admiral Nelson, never could look at those conquered names without mental images of swift, slashing frigates and stately three-deckers firing massive broadsides.
Britannia rules the waves, he hummed to himself, and then smiled at this musical manifestation of Jacqueline Kirby his incurable interest in naval tradition. bulls game
the Titanic was a part of that tradition, as far as Montague was concerned-a magnificent example of British engineering genius applied to civilian ship design and construction, just as that same genius had produced the worlds first dreadnought. Never mind Jacqueline Kirby that the liners design was seriously flawed in several respects. She was alligator alley
as sturdy as the older Cunard twins, Mauretania and Lusitania. For that matter, she was even structurally inferior to a passenger ship built in 1858: naval architect Isambard Bruneis Great Eastern, which really Jacqueline Kirby was virtually unsinkable. The Great Eastern, a clumsy monstrosity only one hundred feet shorter than the Titanic, had demetrius mitchell
double hull compared to the latters single-layer one. Bruneis creation also had longitudinal as well as transverse bulkheads, providing a honeycomb structure of enormous strength. Her transverse Jacqueline Kirby bulkheads reached thirty feet above the waterline; the Titanics only ten feet. The Great Eastern had once struck a hidden shoal, tearing a gash wtkk
her outer hull eighty-three feet long and nine feet deep, yet she reached New York under her own power. Taking her Jacqueline Kirby lesser length into consideration, the damage was as extensive as that suffered by the Titanic. Titanic lovers like Montague never dwelled on the ships technical inadequacies, however. Human errors, overconfidence, foolhardy wtkk
and plain carelessness had doomed her-mistakes by men who knew the supposed unsinkable label was Jacqueline Kirby pure hyperbole. Only sixteen lifeboats and four collapsibles for more than two thousand passengers and crew, no binoculars for the lookouts, indifference to a plethora of ice warnings, excessive speed into a known berg area-these were ramses barden
flaws, not ship flaws. In fact, there were some experts Jacqueline Kirby who defended the vessels construction. Yes, the bulkheads were too low, but those same fifteen bulkheads, dividing the hull into sixteen watertight compartments, had kept a mortally wounded ship afloat for nearly three hours and allowed the Titanic to maintain an almost alligator alley
keel until the Jacqueline Kirby very end, thus making it easier to launch the lifeboats. Her owners were the ones who decided only sixteen lifeboats were needed on a liner designed to carry as many as sixty-four, and had .
