
A Passenger predicted the Disaster
A lot of people, including the brains behind the Titanic, believed the ship was unsinkable. There were some that didn’t hold this sentiment about the Titanic though; one of them was Charles Melville Hays (left), a passenger that thought an appalling disaster was looming.
Hays headed the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, the two companies that were combined to create the Canadian National Railway; because of the nature of his job, Hays was quite knowledgeable about transportation and technological advancements. He held the rhetoric that bigger and faster ships weren’t the way to go.