A Titanic task: Motor specialists Haynes produce a manual for the 'unsinkable ship'
If only they'd had this book when the Titanic hit the ice-berg... who knows how it might have all turned out?
Nearly a century after the ill-fated luxury liner sank on its maiden voyage to the depths of the freezing the North Atlantic, those masters of the motorists' car manual at Haynes have diversified into a fascinating new area with the 'RMS Titanic Owners' Workshop Manual 1909-12 (Olympic Class).'
The 160-page hardback tome covers both the technical specifications of the superlative steam ship and the all too human tragedy which befell the passengers and crew after the ship's owners and captain tempted fate too far - and lost.
Details range from the making and fitting of its three giant propellers to the furnishing of the luxury state rooms, and from the creation of its three vast anchor to the choice and fitting of rivets - many of which failed.
A whole chapter is devoted to the intricate design of lifeboats - of which there were sadly and scandalously far too few.
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