A Trade That Has Been Booming Since The Titanic Disaster
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The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times in the boat-building industry, and at King’s Yard, Limehouse, the oldest firm of the kind in London, skilled men cannot be found in sufficient numbers to meet the demand. It takes about a fortnight to build a wooden lifeboat capable of carrying fifty persons, the cost of such a craft being from £80 to £90.
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