Titanic Ships Titanic Disasters

Book

Maritime Museum of San Diego

Name/Title

Titanic Ships Titanic Disasters

Entry/Object ID

LA2018.008.001

Description

Part 1. : The beginnings. Introduction -- The origins of ship design -- Wrought iron becomes steel -- Hulls -- Propulsion machinery in 1900 -- The watertube boiler -- Part 2. : The ships. The Lusitania and Mauretania -- The Olympic class -- The steam turbine for Cunard -- Machinery for the Olympic class -- Part 3. : The events. The advent of the Titanic -- Titanic : the event -- Collision -- Evacuation -- Damage to the hull -- Titanic hull fracture -- Lusitania : the event -- Britannic -- Part 4. : Contemporary analysis. Unsinkability - an introduction -- Unsinkability - the technical problem -- Unsinkability III -- SOLAS 1914 -- SOLAS 1914 reviewed -- Part 5. : Design criticisms. The White Star response to the loss of the Titanic -- Boiler explosions - Lusitania -- Titanic machinery in extremis -- Lifeboats -- Titanic's steering -- Structural integrity -- Titanic stability. ix, 540 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Collection

Maritime Museum of San Diego Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Cunard Steamship Company, ltd., White Star Line., Titanic (Steamship), Lusitania (Steamship), Mauretania (Ship), Olympic (Steamship), Britannic (Ship), Steamboat lines., Naval architecture., Steamboat disasters., Shipwrecks.

Book Details

Author

Garzke, William H.

Place Published

City

Jersey City, NJ, New York, NY

State/Province

New Jersey, New York

Country

USA

Continent

North America

River

Hudson River

Ocean

East Coast of North America, Atlantic Ocean, World Ocean

Harbor

New York Harbor

Date Published

2002

Call No.

HE945.C9 .G37 2002