The following speech was delivered at the inauguration of the classes on Naval Architecture at Glasgow University in 1912, after the Titanic disaster, by Professor John Harvard Biles, at the time Vice-President of the Institution of Naval Architects. He discussed the causes of the loss of the Titanic and the proposals of the Board of Trade for exercising control over the designs of ships in their early stages. He referred to the catastrophe to the Titanic as the most momentous event in shipping during the year. I transcribed it in Anniversary Gregg.
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