Could the Titanic Have Been Saved?: Exploring the “What-ifs” of the Disaster

A phrase which frequently crops up around the sinking of the Titanic is this: “If they had just …………. everyone would have been saved!”

But would they really?

In this book, engineer Joe Tickle takes many of the most debated “what if” moments from history’s most famous naval disaster and individually examines each one, building off eyewitness testimonies and the work of a century of researchers to produce a definitive answer as to how likely each scenario would be to save the ship, or at least a few more of the passengers.

• What if the ship had enough lifeboats?
• What if they were traveling more slowly?
• What if rescue had arrived sooner?