The Sinking Of The TitanicJazzybee Verlag, 2012 - 310 σελίδες The human imagination is unequal to the reconstruction of the appalling scene of the disaster in the North Atlantic. No picture of the pen or of the painter's brush can adequately represent the magnitude of the calamity that has made the whole world kin. How trivial in such an hour seem the ordinary affairs of civilized mankind--the minor ramifications of politics, the frenetic rivalry of candidates, the haggle of stock speculators. We are suddenly, by an awful visitation, made to see our human transactions in their true perspective, as small as they really are. Man's pride is profoundly humbled: he must confess that the victory this time has gone to the blind, inexorable forces of nature, except in so far as the manifestation of the heroic virtues is concerned. The ship that went to her final resting place two miles below the placid, unconfessing level of the sea represented all that science and art knew how to contribute to the expedition of traffic, to the comfort and enjoyment of voyagers. She had 15 watertight steel compartments supposed to render her unsinkable. She was possessed of submarine signals with micro-phones, to tell the bridge by means of wires when shore or ship or any other object was at hand.There was a collision bulkhead to safeguard the ship against the invasion of water amidships should the bow be torn away. In a word, the boat was as safe and sound as the shipbuilder could make it. It was the pride of the owners and the commander that what has happened could not possibly occur. And yet the Titanic went down, and carried to their doom hundreds of passengers and men who intimately knew the sea and had faced every peril that the navigator meets. |
Περιεχόμενα
Believed Ship Unsinkable | |
How Survivors Escaped | |
Notable Woman Saved | |
Major Butt Martyr To Duty Chapter XII Mrs Astors Bravery | |
Lifeboats Bunglingly Handled | |
Not Like Bourgogne Disaster | |
Boys Desperate Fight For Life | |
Carpathia To The Rescue Chapter XVII Refused To Leave Husband | |
Lady DuffGordons Experiences | |
Senators Hear Startling Stories | |
Womans Thrilling Narrative | |
Survivors Stirring Stories | |
How Astor Went To Death | |
Surviving Operators Experiences | |
The Funeral Ship And Its Dead | |
Inquiry By United States Senate | |
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