King's College London Engineering Association (KCLEA) Annual Lecture

Join us for the King's College London Engineering Association (KCLEA) Annual Lecture: ‘Titanic, from engineering triumph to human tragedy - how a splendid ship was sunk by the obstinacy and perversity of man.’

Our guest speaker for the evening is Graham Anthony (Civil Engineering, 1953). After leaving King’s, Graham served with the Royal Engineers in Berlin - where he developed his skills as a competitive helmsman sailing on the magnificent Havel lakes - and then travelled the world working for international manufacturing companies. In London, he was a founding director of the Engineering Council and was a member of the Parliamentary & Scientific Committee. A qualified Yacht Master, with a lifelong passion for sailing and the sea, Graham has sailed around the British Isles, on the Baltic, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. He is a regular contributor to maritime journals, lectures at universities, yacht clubs, and cruise audiences and each year under-takes a sponsored lecture tour of the United States for the English Speaking Union.

Graham’s talk will discuss how the Titanic was a triumph of American finance and British engineering, explaining the background to many of the technical issues and showing how the design features of the Titanic and her two sister ships prove what splendid technical triumphs they were - the Titanic did not hit the Iceberg by her own accord but by the failings of her Captain and Officers, and the tragic loss of life was because regulations permitted 16 lifeboats to be taken off the Titanic the day before she left Southampton… these human failings were the reasons that the Titanic has become the world’s most famous maritime tragedy.

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