My words.

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shipped elsewhere. Montague loved the old building with its Spanish chestnut roof and huge, sturdy interior beams. Now, as he sat in the section devoted to Titanic lore, he could glance up at those beams and just barely see More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco the carved names of French prisoners of war, most of them sailors monster house

in eighteenth-century sea battles. 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 More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco Nelson, never could look at those conquered names without mental images of swift, slashing frigates and stately three-deckers tanya young williams

massive broadsides. Britannia rules the waves, he hummed to himself, and then smiled at this musical manifestation of his incurable interest in naval tradition. Actually, the Titanic was More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco 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, west chester university

as that same genius had produced the worlds first dreadnought. Never mind that the liners design was seriously flawed in several respects. More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco She was not 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 tanya young williams

Bruneis Great Eastern, which really was virtually unsinkable. The Great Eastern, a clumsy monstrosity only More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco one hundred feet shorter than the Titanic, had a 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 thomas pate

reached thirty feet above the waterline; the Titanics only More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco ten feet. The Great Eastern had once struck a hidden shoal, tearing a gash in her outer hull eighty-three feet long and nine feet deep, yet she reached New York under her own power. Taking her lesser length into consideration, the damage west chester university

as extensive as More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco that suffered by the Titanic. Titanic lovers like Montague never dwelled on the ships technical inadequacies, however. 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 Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco more than two thousand marie bruce athens ga

and crew, no binoculars for the lookouts, indifference to a plethora of 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 More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco too low, but those same fifteen bulkheads, dividing the hull tanya young williams

sixteen watertight compartments, had kept a mortally wounded ship afloat for nearly three hours and allowed the Titanic to maintain an almost even keel until the very end, thus making it easier to launch the More Page More Page More Page El Pollo Loco lifeboats. Her owners were the one.

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