Why did the designer of the titanic boldly say that it was the safest ship ever built?

Question

When it wasn't.

Or wasn't it?

Answer 1

It was... but even the safest ship ever built will sink if a moron runs it into an iceberg at top speed.

Answer 2

The Titanic was an engineering marvel at that time. It was considered the safest ship of all time because it was designed with seal able compartments so they could be closed off in the event that it suffered damage and took on water sealing off the affected area would prevent the ship from filling and sinking. Only problem was that they didn't have the doors closed at the time they hit the iceberg.

Answer 3

The Ship was, in all respects, unsinkable, however...

It had a Rudder that was WAY too small, making it a slow turner...

Captain Smith was trained to turn the ship away, if he had rammed the Berg he would have made it.

Also, The First mate ordered "All Back Full" Meaning the ships Propellers were slowing the ship, while the little rudder tuned the ship, and it scraped the side of the ship.

And finally, the ship had enough Lifeboats for its Class, not for its passengers.
It was a large amount of Circumstance that led to the Ships Death, from rusty Rivets, to a Tiny Rudder.

Answer 4

At the time, it was one of the safest. The didn't think anything was going to breech more than 3 of the bulkheads. The iceburg gouged through 4, causing too much water to come in, and overflow the bulkheads at E deck one by one until the ship went nose-down.

It isn't that the ship wasn't safe, it was the entire series of events that eventually ledto the Titanic's demise

Answer 5

The designers of the ship never hyped the unsinkabillity of the Titanic. At the time the huge ships had magazines that were devoted to them. It was reprters expounding on the saftey features that led to the myth.

Answer 6

because he had NO IDEA that to BUILD the titanic and its sister ship at the same time, they had to hire untrained workers to MAKE the components - namely the RIVETS that held the hull together.

These untrained workers did not know how to make good QUALITY rivets, as steel working requires discipline and understanding of alloys and contamination. The rivets came in large batches to the shipyard - and ones made by skilled workers were not mixed together with the ones made by unskilled workers.

Therefore, when the iceberg hit - it hit a portion of the boat that was riveted together by the poorly made rivets, and they all FAILED - creating a hole SO LARGE that no one could have foreseen this issue.

it was the greated ship ever built at the time, and it had safety precautions to close off the portions of the hull in case of a small problem, but no one realized that so many rivets would fail at once.

Answer 7

It depends on what your interpretation of "safe" means. Theoretically, the Titanic was the strongest, soundest ship ever built at the time of its christening. However, it lacked enough life-boats to safely rescue the ships passenger capacity in the event of a disaster, so in that respect it wasn't very safe.

Answer 8

He was proud of his creation. Very confident. How could he possibly know about the fate of the ship? You don't believe he would spend all that money to build it then take it out for a test ride and deliberately ram the ship into an iceberg, do you? No one knows when human error will occur.

Answer 9

arrogance on the part of the manufacturer and the owners who were trying for world speeds when there should have been more time spent on " shaking down " the ship as She was still new

Answer 10

It was a leading shipbuilding journal that proclaimed it 'unsinkable', because of its watertight compartment design.
The Titanic was considered so safe that she carried only 20 lifeboats - only enough for half her 2,200 passengers and crew.