The Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was the pride of the white Star Line. When it was officially launched in May 11 1911, it was the largest manmade object in the world. Deemed unsinkable it was touted as having been built with the best shipping technology at the time but, according to theories, the Titanic was doomed from the very beginning. It’s so called technology of being built with water tight compartments was flawed because water could spillover from one compartment into another. If The Titanic has copied designs of its largest competitor The Cunard shipping line, who built its ships to address this very same flaw, the Titanic would not have sunk.
Perhaps the biggest critical flaw of the Titanic was the presence of just 16 lifeboats that even if loaded to full capacity would have carried just one-third of 3300 people on board.
Titanic theorists have added to the doomed theory of the Titanic with evil omens on the day she set sail with 3300 souls from Southampton on April 10, 1912. As soon as the ship got underway, she narrowly missed a collision with the America line’s S.S. New York. That was considered one of the worst omens for any ship on her maiden voyage but ironically had she indeed collided; the delay may have saved the Titanic sparing the ships from her encounter with the iceberg.
The other incident was a fire in one of her bunkers which was considered a common occurrence in steamships of those days. Although the captain and chief engineer had concluded it was under control, it actually wasn’t and stokers were told to keep it under control even as the ship sailed out to sea. Titanic experts say that the fire could have been the reason the crew attempted to sail it at full speed, a fact which may have caused its inability to avoid hitting the iceberg. It seems the Titanic was doomed indeed.
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