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Wool House had been used as a temporary prison then, a proud time when Britains fleets dominated the worlds oceans. 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 Marie Bruce Athens Ga stately three-deckers firing massive broadsides.
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waves, he hummed to himself, and then smiled at this musical manifestation of his incurable interest in naval tradition. Actually, the Titanic was a part of that tradition, as far as Montague was concerned-a magnificent example of British engineering Marie Bruce Athens Ga genius applied to civilian ship design and construction, just as that same jay leno in hospital
had produced the worlds first dreadnought. Never mind that the liners design was seriously flawed in several respects. She was not as sturdy as the older Cunard twins, Mauretania and Lusitania. For that matter, Marie Bruce Athens Ga she was even structurally inferior to a passenger ship built in 1858: naval architect Isambard Bruneis Great Eastern, joshua p warren
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suffered by the Titanic. Titanic lovers like Montague never dwelled on the ships technical inadequacies, however. Marie Bruce Athens Ga Human errors, overconfidence, foolhardy assumptions and plain carelessness had doomed her-mistakes by men who knew the supposed unsinkable label was pure hyperbole. Only sixteen lifeboats and four collapsibles for more than two thousand passengers and crew, kevin ellison
binoculars for the lookouts, indifference to a plethora of Marie Bruce Athens Ga ice warnings, excessive speed into a known berg area-these were human flaws, not ship flaws. In fact, there were some experts who defended the vessels construction. Yes, the bulkheads were too low, but those same fifteen bulkheads, dividing the hull into sixteen watertight joshua p warren
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as sixty-four, and had even ruled against using thirty-two. Sixteen seemed adequate for a ship that couldnt sink. Yet the mistakes and jaunty arrogance of that Edwardian era were part of the Titanic mystique, all woven into the fascinating mosaic that formed Marie Bruce Athens Ga the Titanic legend, a legend born with her very death filene s basement
Almost from the moment she sank, there had been talk of locating the wreck and recovering the fortune in diamonds and other gems that reportedly went down with the ship. In the same year of Marie Bruce Athens Ga the disaster, several wealthy American families, including the Guggenheims, Astors, and Wideners, had asked the prestigious kevin ellison
firm of Merritt and Chapman to find and raise the Titanic-a project that quickly died when the company informed the backers that in 1912, no search-and-salvage equipment was remotely Marie Bruce Athens Ga capable of accomplishing this feat. Montague himself w.
