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Harland Wolff archived records state that over 3 million rivets were needed to build the Titanic.

A shortage of high quality rivets lead to inferior quality metal rivets being used. Unskilled labourers were employed as riveters to increase productivity but their work was below the required standard and combined with the inferior rivets there was a recipe for disaster as the hull plate joints were nowhere near as strong as they were intended to be and this is considered by experts to be a major contributing factor to the liners demise after hitting the iceberg.

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