Titanic ships, Titanic disasters an analysis of early Cunard and White Star superliners
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 c...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Jersey City, NJ
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
c 2002
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Cunard Steamship Company, ltd
> White Star Line
> Titanic (Steamship)
> Lusitania (Steamship)
> Mauretania (Ship)
> Olympic (Steamship)
> Britannic (Ship)
> Steamboat lines
> Naval architecture
> Steamboat disasters
> Shipwrecks
> Schiffsuntergang
> Titanic
> Lusitania
> Olympic
> Britannic
> Schiffbau
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 540 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 093977335X 0-939773-35-X |