An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own Lifeboat

"An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its Own Lifeboat" by J. Bernard Walker is a deep-dive into the safety problems that caused the Titanic tragedy. The text, penned in the early 1900s, claims that shipbuilding's emphasis on being fast and fancy has made ships dangerous, and suggests going back to the solid safety ideas used in older ships. Walker wants to show how important it is for ocean liners to be built with safety in mind so that tragedies like the Titanic don't happen again. He starts by looking closely at what went wrong with the Titanic, pointing out how its size and supposedly advanced safety systems gave people a fake sense of security even though they didn't stop the ship from sinking. He also talks about big mistakes in how the ship was designed, like how the watertight sections didn't work well enough and how ship safety rules weren't good enough. Walker thinks it's really important to bring back old, reliable safety methods, especially building ships that can act like their own lifeboats, so people don't have to rely as much on actual lifeboats.