Project Gutenberg 2014-07-07 Public domain in the USA. 236 Walker, John Bernard 1858 12018295 An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own Lifeboat Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its Own Lifeboat" by J. Bernard Walker is a critical examination of maritime safety, specifically addressing the construction flaws that led to the Titanic disaster, written in the early 20th century. The book argues that the focus on speed and luxury in modern shipbuilding has compromised safety, making the case for a systematic return to foundational safety principles seen in earlier ships like the Great Eastern. The author aims to highlight the essential need for better safety designs in ocean liners to prevent tragedies like the sinking of the Titanic. The opening of the work sets the stage for a profound analysis of the factors that contributed to the Titanic's rapid sinking following a collision with an iceberg. Walker discusses the false sense of security that arose from the ship's size and supposed state-of-the-art safety features, which failed to prevent disaster. He notes critical shortcomings in the ship's design, such as the inadequacy of watertight compartments and the flawed regulations governing ship safety. Walker emphasizes the importance of revisiting effective safety measures, particularly emphasizing the need for ships to be built as their own lifeboats, thereby reducing reliance on lifeboats and improving overall maritime safety. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46219/46219-h/images/cover.jpg en Titanic (Steamship) Shipbuilding VM Text Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: History - General 206501 206513 2024-09-19T10:17:16.662638 2023-09-20T06:33:11.429672 text/html text/html 199085 2014-07-07T16:45:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2171692 2014-07-07T16:49:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2011842 2024-09-19T10:17:23.064609 application/epub+zip 2011875 2024-09-19T10:17:18.373665 application/epub+zip 124509 2024-09-19T10:17:17.158644 application/epub+zip 2513725 2024-09-19T10:17:26.206620 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2488838 2024-09-19T10:17:21.725696 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 181098 2022-09-21T04:47:43.283069 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 162817 162654 2024-09-19T10:17:16.072648 2023-09-20T06:33:10.847675 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 162574 2014-07-07T16:45:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 58802 2014-07-07T16:49:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 162625 2014-07-07T16:48:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 58791 2014-07-07T16:49:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20007 2024-09-19T10:17:26.346587 application/rdf+xml 24141 2024-09-19T10:17:17.250632 image/jpeg 4346 2024-09-19T10:17:17.204633 image/jpeg 2190732 2024-09-19T10:17:16.783639 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog