10 Mistakes That Sank The Titanic

From the birth of the fatal iceberg in the glaciers of Greenland to the hours after it struck the ship, we follow the Titanic’s journey from construction to catastrophe, charting ten key mistakes that caused the most famous naval disaster in history. On 14th April 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic and went down with around 1500 passengers and crew. But the Titanic was a cutting edge liner, designed to survive such a collision – so what doomed the iconic ship? 10 Mistakes That Sank the Titanic reveals that there was no single factor which sent the Titanic to the bottom of the ocean. Instead what sealed the ship’s fate was a cascade of events – none of them fatal in their own right, but each combining to create a catalogue of errors that tipped the balance against her. From the procedure for fixing rivets into the ship’s bows, the delay in her construction that pushed her maiden voyage into perilous iceberg season, to the astonishing fact that the lookouts on watch that fateful night had no access to binoculars, we reveal ten key mistakes that conspired to sink the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic.