When Engineering Goes Wrong: Three Badly Designed Ships
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Designing a ship is a massively complex operation these things can be the size of city blocks and they have to function safely in a constantly changing unstable environment
One small oversight can have disastrous consequences in the past we looked at five Maritime engineering failures including the Lucitania serious vibration issues and the failed launch of the principesa Yolanda
The ship's desire to list over to one side has become legendary passengers on some of the earlier voyages were so dismayed they gave her the nickname Lim perator
Unfortunately safety lessons usually come at the cost of human lives and in the case of longitudinal bulkheads that run along the ship's Center Line it was found after the Empress of Ireland's loss that they had actually contributed to the loss of life
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Designing a ship is no easy task! Through history simple oversights or mistakes have had a range of impacts - from silly, quirky characteristics to outright deadliness. Today we'll look at three ships, each with inherent design issues; Royal Mail Lines' Asturias and Alcantara, Hamburg America Line's Imperator and Canadian Pacific's Empress of Ireland and Empress of Britain. Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!