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Each inquiry took testimony from both passengers and crew of Titanic, crew members of Leyland Line's Californian, Captain Arthur Rostron of Carpathia and other experts. [211] The British inquiry also took far greater expert testimony, making it the longest and most detailed court of inquiry in British history up to that time. [212] The two inquiries reached broadly similar conclusions: the regulations on the number of lifeboats that ships had to carry were out of date and inadequate, [213] Captain Smith had failed to take proper heed of ice warnings, [214] the lifeboats had not been properly filled or crewed, and the collision was the direct result of steaming into a dangerous area at too high a speed. [213] New Liner Titanic Hits an Iceberg; Sinking By the Bow at Midnight; Women Put Off in LIfeboats; Last Wireless at 12:27 am. Blurred". The New York Times. 15 April 2019. p.1. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019.

The car that went down with the Titanic". Fox News. 10 October 2016. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 November 2019. The sheer size of the Olympic class vessels posed a major engineering challenge for Harland and Wolff; no shipbuilder had ever before attempted to construct vessels this size. [76] The ships were constructed on Queen's Island, now known as the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast Harbour. Harland and Wolff had to demolish three existing slipways and build two new ones, the largest ever constructed up to that time, to accommodate both ships. [10] Their construction was facilitated by an enormous gantry built by Sir William Arrol & Co., a Scottish firm responsible for the building of the Forth Bridge and London's Tower Bridge. The Arrol Gantry stood 228 feet (69m) high, was 270 feet (82m) wide and 840 feet (260m) long, and weighed more than 6,000 tons. It accommodated a number of mobile cranes. A separate floating crane, capable of lifting 200 tons, was brought in from Germany. [77]TITANIC IN PERIL ON LEAVING PORT; Suction of Giant Liner Breaks Hawsers of the New York, Which Floats Helpless". The New York Times. 11 April 1912. p.1 . Retrieved 22 March 2022.

See also: Animals aboard Titanic John Jacob Astor IV in 1909. He was the wealthiest person aboard Titanic; he did not survive. Among the last items to be fitted on Titanic before the ship's launch were her two side anchors and one centre anchor. The anchors themselves were a challenge to make, with the centre anchor being the largest ever forged by hand and weighing nearly 16 tons. Twenty Clydesdale draught horses were needed to haul the centre anchor by wagon from the Noah Hingley & Sons Ltd forge shop in Netherton, near Dudley, United Kingdom to the Dudley railway station two miles away. From there it was shipped by rail to Fleetwood in Lancashire before being loaded aboard a ship and sent to Belfast. [87] Harland and Wolff put their leading designers to work designing Olympic-class vessels. The design was overseen by Lord Pirrie, a director of both Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line; naval architect Thomas Andrews, the managing director of Harland and Wolff's design department; Edward Wilding, Andrews's deputy and responsible for calculating the ship's design, stability and trim; and Alexander Carlisle, the shipyard's chief draughtsman and general manager. [11] Carlisle's responsibilities included the decorations, equipment, and all general arrangements, including the implementation of an efficient lifeboat davit design. [b]

Why No Searchlights On Titanic?". 19 November 2012. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 9 February 2019. a b Mowbray, Jay Henry (1912a). "Chapter xxi. The funeral ship and its dead". The sinking of the Titanic. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007 . Retrieved 24 November 2008.

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