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Why the Titanic Sank
About this book
Although the answer appears obvious, there is far more to the sinking of the Titanic than is popularly understood. On 10 April 1912 Titanic - the largest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world - left Southampton on her maiden voyage. The only headlines she expected to make were on her triumphant arrival in New York. But just five days later, she was a wreck at the bottom of the North Atlantic, taking over 1500 lives with her. Why? The answer to this question is a set of circumstances and a chain of events that came together to seal her fate and that of so many of her passengers and crew. Nature of course played her part in the form of that gigantic iceberg as well as in other less obvious ways. Most of all though there was human error, complacency and an inability to think the unthinkable when designing or sailing the ship. Just one different action at any stage in the chain could have saved the life of Titanic or at least most, if not all, of those aboard her. The world still has much to learn from the loss of the Titanic. This book explains why the largest ship in the world was lost and just how the voyage of a lifetime turned into a nightmare.
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Table of contents
- INTRODUCTION
- NATURE SETS ITS TRAP
- THE ICE WARNINGS
- PEERING INTO THE DARKNESS
- ALL A QUESTION OF SPEED
- CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN
- THE BOAT PROBLEM
- The Other Ships
- THE BOATS IN THE WATER
- THE LESSONS OF THE TITANIC
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS