The portentous significance of this decline in the art of unsinkable construction will be realised, when it is borne in mind that the Titanic was built to the highest requirements of the Board of Trade and the insurance companies.
In the modern sense, an unsinkable ship is one which cannot be sunk by any of the ordinary accidents of the open sea, such as those due to stress of weather, or to collision with icebergs, derelicts, or some other ship.
In the building of merchant ships, unsinkable construction has been sacrificed to considerations of speed, convenience of operation, and the provision of luxurious accommodations for the travelling public.
Cheap steel and modern shipyard facilities have made it possible to build a ship of the size and unsinkable characteristics of the Great Eastern, with a reduction in the cost of twenty to thirty per cent.
When these demands have been met, he may pile deck upon deck and crowd as big a boiler- and engine-plant into this unsinkable hull as the balance of the weights at his disposal will allow.
Such was the Great Eastern, a marvel in her time and an object lesson, even to-day, in safe and unsinkable construction.
The strength of the impulse to build unsinkable ships will be exactly in proportion to our realisation of the dangers which beset ocean travel.
There never was but one unsinkable craft, and for that we must go back to the age of primitive man, who doubtless paddled himself across the rivers and lakes upon a roughly fashioned log of wood.
I would not dream of blaming a seaman for doing or omitting to do anything a person sitting in a perfectly safe and unsinkable study may think of.
Nowadays all life-boats are equipped with air tanks to prevent sinking, with the result that metal boats are as unsinkable as wooden ones.
If boats are unsinkable as well as fireproof there is no need of any life-boats at all.
Progress through the centuries has been steady, and perhaps the twentieth century will prepare a vessel that will be unsinkable as well as magnificent.
The theory that the great ship was unsinkable remained with hundreds who had entrusted themselves to the gigantic hulk, long after the officers knew that the vessel could not survive.
We then learned the terrible news that the gigantic vessel, the unsinkable Titanic, had gone down one hour and ten minutes after striking.
The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown was a delightful person, and I wish I had known her.
I know who you are all right; you're Mr Cavendish, late fifth officer of the unsinkable steamship Everest, very recently gone to the bottom.
The plain person is driven to the conclusion that if there are no unsinkable ships there are some unsinkable officials.
Unsinkable ships are possibly practical to a limited extent.
Also, battleships which should be unsinkable and provided with longer-range guns than those of the enemy would be required.
And up on deck a chilly conviction of doom was slowly but certainly taking the place of that bland confidence in the unsinkableship in which the previous hour had been lightly passed.
After all they had made better provision for the passengers the Titanic carried than any other line has done, for they had built what they believed to be a huge lifeboat, unsinkable in all ordinary conditions.
But perhaps what made so many people declare their decision to remain was their strong belief in the theory of the Titanic's unsinkable construction.
Before sightseeing around Leadville the visitor should read The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown, Silver Queen, Augusta Tabor and the Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville.
The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown: "Caroline Bancroft's booklets are brighter, better illustrated and cheaper than formal histories of Colorado.
The most historic is Oro City in California Gulch, but we have chosen Stumptown because of its association with "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," a musical comedy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsinkable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
