Littoral combat ship

of Titanic is remembered for the failure of an engineering marvel equipped with technological advances that were, at the time, deemed it “practically unsinkable.”(Delgado, n.d.) On April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to New York city, largest ship destined on her maiden voyage. The most luxurious and with latest technology of her time, cruise liner set sail for the United States with the pleased passengers all aboard. The largest vessel left with 2,240 passengers and crew and made her way…

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located in Guinea. Abdul-Rahman was captured at the age of 26 and sold into slavery for the price of two flasks of gunpowder, some muskets, two bottle of rum, and eight twists of tobacco. He was brought to Natchez, Mississippi aboard a British slave ship and sold, with another slave, for approximately 950 pesos. Abdul-Rahman made his master a very wealthy man because he was educated and knew how to grow cotton. Cotton had been growing for years in his native land where his people had been…

Lord was the captain of the Californian. A nearby ship of the Titanic, about nineteen miles away when the Titanic was sinking. Lord saw the distress flares being fired into the air, twice, and insisted that they were having nothing more than a celebration. Yet, he ignored them and continued on their voyage…

different roles in combat over water. There were dreadnought battleships, pre-dreadnought battleships, torpedo boats, destroyers, monitors, submarines, and cruisers. The types of primary ships evolved throughout the war. Dreadnought Battleships These types of battleships were named after the warship that the British introduced in WWI. They differed from previous battleships because they had a primary armament of guns and a light secondary armament to defend themselves against other ships.…

(1845) One of the most important English engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) He designed three great steamships “The Great Western” in 1836, “The Great Britain” in 1843 and the last “ The Great Eastern” in 1854, the biggest ship ever 692 foot long- used for laying cable (5000 tones) across the world. The very first long-distance to India and America were reached between 1838-1840. In the late 1800s the quantity of fuel were reduced which increased the economic benefit…

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The 1910s was at the end of the Progressive Era where it introduced a plethora of new events and forms of technology. This decade proposed new ideas and concepts that had not been talked about before in the history of the United States such as the fights for women's rights and poor working conditions for white-collar jobs. This decade had its boom and bust cycles along with new presidents that shifted the course of America. The 1910s had many events that make it history, the sinking of the…

Birkenhead Drill Birkenhead Drill was a military ship. In February 1851, it was going to South Africa with troops and their families. There were a total of six hundred and thirty people on board out of which one hundred and seventy were women and children. The rest were inexperienced military men and officers. At 2 a.m. on 25th February, when this ship was near Cape Town, it strokes a massive rock that was not shown on any of the maps. This sudden jerk broke the ship into two pieces. The front…