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The Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was the product of intense competition among rival shipping lines in the first half of the 20th century . On May 31, 1911, Titanic’s immense hull–at the time, the largest movable manmade object in the world–made its way down the slipways and into the River Lagan In Belfast. According to some hypothesis, the Titanic was doomed from the start by the design so many lauded as state-of-the-art. Titanic created quite a stir when it departed for its maiden voyage from…

106 years ago the tragedy struck; and 706 people sat on lifeboats or clung onto chairs and boards for their lives, while others said their final words on a ship once called unsinkable. People watched as the grand ship split in half after hitting an iceberg. The bow split from the stern and spiraled down to the bottom of the Atlantic, not to be found for another 73 years by Robert Ballard. The stern stuck up in the air and went down under the sea like an “elevator.” It wasn’t nature’s fault, so…

From Titanic to Costa Concordia – a century of lessons not learned is a paper written by Schröder-Hinrichs, J., Hollnnagell, E. and Baldauf, M. that describes both the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the sinking of the Costa Concordia in 2012. The Piece was written to highlight how two cruise ship disasters that happened almost exactly a century apart had the same underlying human and organizational factors; thus illuminating the fact that though many thing in the shipping industry have…

R. v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) Facts On May 19, 1884 the Mignonette set sail for Sydney, Australia. The yacht sailed with four crew members: Tom Dudley, Edwin Stephens, Edmund Brooks and Richard Parker. On July 5, the yacht sank. The men found a lifeboat that only contained two, 1 pound cans of turnip. On the twelfth day at sea the men had officially run out of food after eating the cans of turnip and a sea turtle that they had caught. After a week of not eating anything, Dudley, Stephens,…

Ship collision is a kind of marine accident that results from a ship crashing into a still or floating object. Ship collision cases can be a ship to ship, ship to floating object, ship to submarine or ship to still structure collisions. We all have heard about the historic accident of the collision of the ship Titanic to an Iceberg. It was a ship to floating object type of collision. Collision can also be defined as the change in form of a vessel as a result of an impact with a solid object.…

Quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”. Franklin was the longest term president ever. Franklin’s childhood was a great experience to start his future. Franklin was born on January 30th, 1887 and lived most of his years in HYDE Park, New York. Franklin was educated by tutors till age 14. In 1896 he moved to Massachusetts and went to a private school called the Groton school for boys. In 1900 he graduated from Groton school for boys. He…

The sinking of the Titanic was a tragic event. Everyone was devastated because of the most advanced ship of the time sunk, About the Titanic, the sinking, and about the survivors are in the following paragraphs. The Titanic was a tragic event that isn’t uncovered all the way yet. (history.com) If you have ever wondered about the Titanic you won’t have to anymore. The Titanic was 269.1 meters long making it the largest ship of its time. It had cost $7500000 to build it. It carried 2223 people…

The Belvedere is one hundred And twenty four years old. it was built by a steam boat manager J.russell jones in 1858. In 1883 he was forced into bankruptcy And the mansion was sold to John Ross In 1938. The house was leased to a city site for a museum. the Belvedere is also known as the model house because of its beauty and its 22 rooms. Also just a little structure has been changed on the inside so the building does not fall apart or collapse. The main rooms and the guest rooms…

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis was one of America’s greatest naval tragedies as the Indianapolis was one of the flagship ships of the navy at the time as well as one of the fastest. On July 30th of 1945, at 4 minutes past midnight, on the route between Guam and Leyte Gulf, known as “Convoy Route Peddie,” the ship was hit by two of the six torpedoes that were fired at it by the I-58, a Japanese submarine.Ultimately only 317 men survived and were rescued in different groups at different…

It was never a normal day on the ship of the straw hat pirates, there was always a noise going on. From Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper fishing to Brook playing a song to Sanji fangirling over Robin and Nami. While you were sitting at a table, sun beating down on you, with a killer headache. Curse all this noise. Noise was your worst enemy at the moment and it seemed like its winning. Everything seems to go quiet for only a moment, a blissful moment, before the sudden yelling from across the deck made…