Twenty-eighth Index Card

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• Titanic's construction was funded by an American company.
• She wasdesigned by a Scotsman (Anderson) who's original design was altered foreconomic reasons (greedy American profiteer) by lessening the number andplacement of the watertight compartments.
• The ship's hull was constructedin Belfast using materials made and purchased in elsewhere (England?).
• The specified material for construction was not used, the smeltersubstituting an inferior steel alloy.
• The substitute alloy was morebrittle than the specified material making the material more susceptibleto breaking rather than just bending under stress.
• There was nothing wrong with the quality of work that went into theconstruction, it was superb (mostly Irish Protestant workers).