
If we learn the lesson of this tragedy, we shall lose no time in getting back to first principles. We shall reintroduce in all future passenger ships those simple and effective elements of safety-the double skin, the longitudinal bulkhead, and the watertight deck-which were conspicuous...

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An Unsinkable Titanic By John Bernard Walker



This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...

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In the preface to An Unsinkable Titanic John Bernard Walker states, "It is the object of this work to show that, in our eagerness to make the ocean liner fast and luxurious, we have forgotten to make her safe." Written in the days after the sinking of the Titanic Walker uses...


Reprint of the original, first published in 1912.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1912.