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Actually, 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.
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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 Isambard Bruneis Great Eastern, which really was virtually unsinkable. The Great More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code Eastern, a clumsy monstrosity only one hundred feet shorter than the Titanic, sara ure
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 bulkheads reached thirty feet above More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code the waterline; the Titanics only ten feet. The Great Eastern had once struck a hidden shoal, tearing a oj brigance
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 More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code 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, jessica simpson vanity fair
assumptions and plain carelessness had doomed her-mistakes by men who knew the supposed unsinkable label was pure hyperbole. Only sixteen lifeboats More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code 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 nike sasquatch sumo 2 lucky 13 driver
human flaws, not ship flaws. In fact, there were some experts who defended the vessels construction. More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code 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 el pollo loco
even keel until the very end, thus making it More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code 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 even ruled against using thirty-two. Sixteen seemed adequate for a ship that couldnt school of practical philosophy
the mistakes and More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code jaunty arrogance of that Edwardian era were part of the Titanic mystique, all woven into the fascinating mosaic that formed the Titanic legend, a legend born with her very death throes. Almost from the moment she sank, there had been talk of locating the wreck More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code and recovering the fortune sara ure
diamonds and other gems that reportedly went down with the ship. In the same year of the disaster, several wealthy American families, including the Guggenheims, Astors, and Wideners, had asked the prestigious salvage firm of Merritt and Chapman to find and More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code raise the Titanic-a project that quickly died when the company margo mcauley
the backers that in 1912, no search-and-salvage equipment was remotely capable of accomplishing this feat. Montague himself was totally scornful of the treasures reputed to be aboard the ship. The cargo manifest had been widely published More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code and contained no hint of anything other than the prosaic commercial goods normally shipped on liners. california lotto
most valuable known item was a jeweled copy of the Rubáiyát, which had been sold at a London auction for less than five hundred pounds shortly before the ship More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page207 Area Code sailed. Insurance claims had been filed for various pieces of personal jewelry, but not in astronomical amounts. So, he asked himself, what was sara ure
doing in the museum?. Groton and his damned book! Whatever Mo.
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