Titanic
Books
- 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…r Carlisle, Harland and Wolff’s chief draughtsman, had devised davits each able to handle three lifeboats, as Carlisle had hoped. This gave Titanic the ability to carry up to 48 wooden lifeboats. However, the White Star Line decided that only 16 wooden lifeboats and four collapsibles wo…
- A Desk of Regulations (London, 1894–1912)…arine Department reached for the 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 wireles…
- The Marconi Room (Liverpool and Seaward, 1900–April 1912)…fornian, a Leyland Line freighter launched in 1901, installed wireless voluntarily—as a commercial proposition, not a maritime requirement. Titanic’s wireless installation represented the state of the art. The ship carried a Marconi 5-kilowatt rotary spark transmitter, the most powerful…