Was Titanic really unsinkable?
Obviously not, since she sent 1517 people to their deaths when she sank on 15th April 1912. A number of the watertight compartments designed to make Titanic ‘unsinkable’ were breached along the ship’s length during a collision with an iceberg. This scenario had been overlooked by the designers, and Titanic was somewhat foolishly claimed to be unsinkable.