The Safety Of The Titanic

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the titanic was in a competition of a rival shipping line for the first half of the 20th century. On May 31,Titanic built a ship called the titanic, the largest manmade object made its way down its slipways and into the river Lagan in Belfast. More than 100,000 people attended the launching, which took a minute and went off without a doubt. The ship was immediately towed and thousands of workers would spend the next year building the ships decks. The ship featured a double bottom and 15 watertight bulkheads equipped with electric watertight doors which could be turned on individually or by a switch on the bridge. Several of Titanic's Cunard-owned contemporaries, already made safety features to avoid this very situation. The second safety

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