Three RMS Titanic Articles - PowerShips - Spring 2012

Front Cover of PowerShips: The Magazine of the Steamship Historical Society of America for Spring 2012. On The Cover: Titanic - Cornerstone Media Illustration by John Goshke, (PowerShips, Spring 2012) | GGA Image ID # 1040b31aab

The Titanic Heads Out for Her Sea Trials. GGA Image ID # 1040c06052

This special 100th Anniversary Issue of PowerShips contains Three Articles about the RMS Titanic: The Final Board of Inquiry, Titanic Helps Sink the International Mercantile Marine Company, and Titanic, Olympic, Britannic: The First Green Vessels.

The Final Board of Inquiry

A Cold Case Investigation into the Sinking of the Steamship Titanic

This thoroughly examines the testimony, photographs, blueprints, eyewitness accounts, and facts related to the sinking of the Titanic. Commander Richard R. Paton, USCGR (Ret), noted that the outcome could be very different if the new findings were presented to a Marine Board of Inquiry convened today.

Titanic Helps Sink The International Mercantile Marine Company

J. P. Morgan's Failed Attempt to Take Over the Atlantic Shipping Trade

By Louis C. Kleber

Morgan Targets Shipping Lines

With Britain's three most significant shipping lines in view, Morgan and Griscom targeted the Leyland Line, intending that the White Star Line and the Cunard Line would follow. The majority stockholder and president of the Leyland Line, John Ellerman, was receptive. Although he drove a hard bargain, the Americans accepted it, and in April 1901, the merger was announced.

Titanic, Olympic & Britannic: The World's First Class of Green Vessels

By Fredrick Gary Hareland

In 1912, When the RMS Titanic Was the World's Largest Man-Made moving object and the most luxurious ship afloat, the words "Greenship" and "Eco-Ship" were yet to be coined.

Titanic and her sisters, however, could qualify for those present-day monikers due to one of the unique engineering innovations of the Olympic-class vessels - a combination propulsion plant that paired two reciprocating steam engines with a steam turbine.