After the sinking of the Titanic, a law was passed in America, requiring ships to carry more lifeboats. Because one of the reasons so many passengers had perished was a lack of lifeboats. 

Some warned that with certain cruise ships, the new design would make the boats top heavy and unstable.

Still, it went through as planned. Now there was this one ship on the dock in Chicago called the SS Eastland, a massive cruise ship designed to tour the Great Lakes.

People were warned that the adding of extra lifeboats would make the already dangerously overloaded ship topple over. No one listened, of course. 

So when the ship made its first trip it sank before it even managed to leave port.

A total of 844 passengers met their deaths when the SS Eastland sank. And it sank due to what must have been the best of intentions — to prevent another Titanic from happening https://image.nostr.build/995dbe1cb9af4eb20936eef043fba94d61ebac849e9c3fa6a223758ef446dcd3.jpg