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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 More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Justfuns In 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 More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Justfuns In genius applied to civilian ship design and construction, just as that same swine flu hampton roads
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, More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Justfuns In she was even structurally inferior to a passenger ship built in 1858: naval architect Isambard Bruneis Great Eastern, jihad recollections
really was virtually unsinkable. The Great Eastern, a clumsy monstrosity only one hundred feet shorter than the Titanic, had a double hull compared to the latters single-layer More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Justfuns In one. Bruneis creation also had longitudinal as well as transverse bulkheads, providing a honeycomb structure of enormous strength. Her transverse bulkheads reached thirty feet sunfest 2009 lineup
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suffered by the Titanic. Titanic lovers like Montague never dwelled on the ships technical inadequacies, however. More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Justfuns In 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, va lottery
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had kept a More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Justfuns In mortally wounded ship afloat for nearly three hours and allowed the Titanic .