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The perfect storm

02 Apr 2012

A century on from the Titanic tragedy, Richard Corfield says that the cascade of fateful events that led to her demise was partly caused by the science of the ship’s construction

That sinking feeling
  One hundred years ago this month, the world reverberated to the news that the largest ship i

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