Who Sank the Titanic?: the Final Verdict by Robert J. Strange

Author:Robert J. Strange
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781844686476
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2012-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

From that time forward the works went on apace; and we finished the ships in hand to the perfect satisfaction of the owners.

It had been a baptism of fire in Ireland but Edward Harland had proven his worth as a manager. His father, William Harland, was a doctor in North Yorkshire who was related through marriage to a number of wealthy men in the booming shipping and engineering trades in the North of England. Although Dr Harland’s professional qualifications were in medicine, his passion was the science of engineering. He ensured that his son grew up with design, engineering and metalwork skills that were to steer his life in only one direction. The family’s friendship with George Stephenson provided Edward with an apprenticeship in the great man’s new steam locomotive and railway business. Just like his father, Edward was a keen amateur inventor. One of his earliest projects was to have a strange resonance through the years for a man whose company would one day build the doomed Titanic. Inspired by seeing a rescue boat launched in his home town of Scarborough, Edward Harland designed a new lifeboat.

After considerable deliberation, I matured a plan for a metal lifeboat, of a cylindrico-conical or chrysalis form, to be propelled by a screw at each end, turned by sixteen men inside, seated on water-ballast tanks; sufficient room being left at the ends inside for the accommodation of ten or twelve shipwrecked persons. The whole apparatus was almost cylindrical, and watertight, save in the self-acting ventilators which could only give access to the smallest portion of water.

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