Despite all the advances in ship design and technology, 100 years after the Titanic, once again passengers were left without enough lifeboats.
Rick Spilman is a writer and naval architect with a background in ship design and operations and a BSE from the University of Michigan.
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For Mr. Branson, the test flight met its most important goal: validating the rocket ship's design.
The ship's design, a mix of Art Deco and Art Nouveau, brings guests right back to the time of 1930s ocean liners.
Microsoft Federal Systems will help design the ship's IT architecture based on the company's Windows 2000 platform.
The commercial off-the-shelf software solution includes a three-year commitment by Microsoft Consulting Services for technical support during the ship's software design, development and deployment.
Because the allegedly unsinkable ship sank, its design and construction, as well as the number and disposition of the lifeboats, have often been the subject of debate.
This new feature enables visitors to walk underneath the ship, exposing the design and engineering feats that enabled the Cutty Sark to reach what were once record-breaking sailing speeds of 17 and a half knots (20 mph).
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Ohio subs began joining the fleet in 1981, so if Navy planners had stuck with their original 30-year design life, the first ship in the class would be retiring this year.
Vern Clark, the service invented a smaller, cheaper warship called the Littoral Combat Ship that broke the mold on naval design and acquisition while potentially offering a warfighting system better suited to emerging threats than the legacy vessels already in the fleet.
But despite its streamline design, the shark-shaped ship travels at an average speed of just 7.5 knots -- about that of a large ocean liner.
Genta again produced a robust design that suggested the impermeability of a ship's porthole, while exhibiting constructional details worthy of fine jewelry.
The year the oldest Ohio-class ballistic-missile sub completes its final nuclear patrol is now expected to be 2027, which sounds a long way off until you realize it takes nearly two decades to design, develop, build and test the lead ship in a successor class.
An economically superior Germany copied the design and matched the rebuilding U.K. navy ship for ship.
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The Littoral Combat Ship was developed using an acquisition strategy that is just as unconventional as its design.
Chinese design and technology are seen in Iranian ballistic and anti-cruise ship missiles, anti-ship mines and fast attack boats.
The company said it would need two years to design and install a "sophisticated ash retention system" for the ship.
The design has been licensed from David Giles, a British aeronautical engineer turned ship designer.
The ship is themed on New York City, with a colorful mural on the exterior hull design by pop artist Peter Max featuring the city skyline and the Statue of Liberty.
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