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- Twenty Lifeboats Titanic, the Inquiries, and the Remaking of Maritime Law · Liszt Think
On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with lifeboats lowered half full.
- The Vessel of Confidence…. The largest moving objects ever built by human hands would soon take shape in the Belfast shipyard. Nobody in that room asked whether the Board of Trade regulations that governed lifeboat requirements had been written for ships a quarter of this size. The regulations were the regulations. Th…
- A Desk of Regulations (London, 1894–1912)…he stamp. He pressed it to the certificate, and the date came up in ink: a ship cleared for sea. Years before Titanic’s launch, the British Board of Trade had spent eighteen years building such a file. Its clerks had written rules for lifeboats, for wireless telegraphs, for navigation in dange…
- The Marconi Room (Liverpool and Seaward, 1900–April 1912)…thy travelers. The wireless room became a source of revenue, a symbol of modernity, and an afterthought in safety planning—all at once. The Board of Trade watched this development from a distance. Its last major revision of merchant shipping regulations had come in 1894, when wireless telegrap…