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Bruneis creation also had longitudinal as well as transverse bulkheads, providing a honeycomb structure of enormous strength. Her transverse bulkheads reached thirty feet above the waterline; the Titanics only ten feet. The Great Eastern had once struck a hidden shoal, tearing a gash in her More Page More Page More Page John Duddy outer hull eighty-three feet long and rich bircumshaw

feet deep, yet she reached New York under her own power. Taking her 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. More Page More Page More Page John Duddy Human errors, overconfidence, foolhardy assumptions and plain carelessness had doomed her-mistakes by rich bircumshaw

who knew the supposed unsinkable label was 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 More Page More Page More Page John Duddy ice warnings, excessive speed into a known berg area-these were human flaws, not ship flaws. In fact, there were salmons bulls

experts 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 More Page More Page More Page John Duddy mortally wounded ship afloat for nearly three hours and allowed the Titanic to maintain an almost even keel until the very end, thus making rich bircumshaw

easier to launch the lifeboats. Her owners were the ones who decided only sixteen lifeboats were needed on a liner designed More Page More Page More Page John Duddy to carry as many 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 cinco de mayo

were part of the Titanic mystique, all woven into the fascinating mosaic that formed the More Page More Page More Page John Duddy Titanic legend, a legend born with her very death throes. 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 hong man choi

with the ship. In the same year of the More Page More Page More Page John Duddy disaster, several wealthy American families, including the Guggenheims, Astors, and Wideners, had asked the prestigious salvage firm of Merritt and Chapman to fin.

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