An Unsinkable Titanic

Published three months after the sinking of the Titanic, this is the rarest and the most learned of the early books on the disaster. In it, the crusading editor of the Scientific American magazine shows that passenger safety had been repeatedly sacrificed in the competition for luxury and speed between the great shipping lines, and that the Titanic was much less safe than the Great Eastern, a liner launched more than 50 years previously. Here you'll find the first published explanation of why the Titanic’s low bulkheads were insufficient to stop the flooding, how more lifeboats could easily have been carried on deck, and even why the unusual transverse arrangement of the boilers needed fewer stokers but ultimately cost more lives. Walker uses ship photographs and marine diagrams to show that an unsinkable Titanic – able to stay afloat long enough for all her passengers to be safely rescued – was indeed possible, if only the public would demand it.


This ebook edition features:

 • 42 photographs and illustrations from the first edition

 • Active table of contents and reflowable text

 • Part of the Titanic Landmark Series – republishing eyewitness accounts of the Titanic


Table of Contents:

 • I. Introductory

 • II. The Ever-Present Dangers of the Sea

 • III. Every Ship Its Own Lifeboat

 • IV. Safety Lies in Subdivision

 • V. The Unsinkable Great Eastern of 1858

 • VI. The Sinkable Titanic

 • VII. How the Great Ship Went Down

 • VIII. Warship Protection Against Ram, Mine, and Torpedo

 • IX. Warship Protection as Applied to Some Ocean Liners

 • X. Conclusions