PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II THE EVER-PRESENT DANGERS OF THE SEA
CHAPTER III EVERY SHIP ITS OWN LIFEBOAT
CHAPTER IV SAFETY LIES IN SUBDIVISION
CHAPTER V THE UNSINKABLE GREAT EASTERN OF 1858
CHAPTER VI THE SINKABLE TITANIC
CHAPTER VII HOW THE GREAT SHIP WENT DOWN
CHAPTER VIII WARSHIP PROTECTION AGAINST RAM, MINE, AND TORPEDO
CHAPTER IX WARSHIP PROTECTION AS APPLIED TO SOME OCEAN LINERS
CHAPTER X CONCLUSIONS
AN UNSINKABLE TITANIC
Photo by Brown Bros., New York
Stoke-hole of a Transatlantic Liner
AN
UNSINKABLE
TITANIC
EVERY SHIP
ITS OWN LIFEBOAT
BY
J. BERNARD WALKER
Editor of the Scientific American
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1912
Copyright, 1912, by
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
Published, July, 1912
THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS
RAHWAY, N. J.
To
THE MEMORY OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE TITANIC,
JOHN BELL,
AND HIS STAFF OF THIRTY-THREE ASSISTANTS,
WHO STOOD AT THEIR POSTS IN THE ENGINE-
AND BOILER-ROOMS TO THE VERY LAST,
AND WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP,
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
