Titanic Citation Catalog
I created this document to assist Titanic researchers. I have found it maddening to have to thumb through numerous books to find a particular citation on a certain subject. Using this document you can more easily locate the citation you’re l...
Titanic's Cargo Gear
How Titanic's cargo equipment worked. Description of cranes, winches, holds etc....
True Course
An explanation of the use of magnetic compasses, how to plot courses and how these procedures on the Titanic compared to their use other ships in 1912...
Why the Titanic did not list
Eqab S Al-Otaibi NS 415 Titanic Supervised by Captain C. Weeks
The list of any ship is due to either a negative initial stability (GM, metacentric height) or off center weight. So the list is due to internal force. Off center weight is d...
Titanic Passenger Ticket Revenues
On (p. 58) of The Great Liners Melvin Maddocks says with regard to Steerage passengers ”… they represented one third of the revenues of the shipping companies, and accounted for more than half the profits.” John Malcolm...
Was the Titanic's Rudder Large Enough?
There have been several times when the question has been raised about whether the Titanic's rudder was large enough. It has been suggested that if the rudder had been larger she would have turned more quickly and thus missed the iceberg.
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