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When, after the passing of those two or three fateful minutes an officer on the bridge lifted the telephone receiver from its hook to answer the lookout, it was too late. The speeding liner, cleaving a calm sea under a star-studded sky, had reached the floating mountain of ice, which the theoretically "unsinkable" ship struck a crashing, if glancing, blow with her starboard bow.
That ocean liners take chances with their passengers, though known to the well informed, is newly revealed and comes with a shock of surprise and dismay to most people. If boats are unsinkable as well as fireproof there is no need of any life-boats at all. But no such steamship has ever been constructed.
She was advertised as the largest steamer in the world and as the safest; she was called "unsinkable." The ocean thus struck its blow at no mean victim, but at the ship supposedly the queen of all ships. Through the might of the great tragedy, man was taught two lessons. One was against boastfulness.
There will be high speed boats for use as transports and a wise government will assist steamship companies in paying for them, as the English Government is now doing in the cases of the Lusitania and Mauretania, twenty-five knot boats; but no steamship company will put them out merely as a commercial venture." Captain Smith believed the Titanic to be unsinkable.
This the travelling public will have to face and undoubtedly will be willing to face for the satisfaction of knowing that what was so confidently affirmed by passengers on the Titanic's deck that night of the collision will then be really true, that "we are on an unsinkable boat," so far as human forethought can devise.
The air service is as safe as any other travelling service. The parachute is safe. But the water is not safe. BURGE-LUBIN. Why? They will give me an unsinkable tunic, wont they? CONFUCIUS. You will not sink; but the sea is very cold. You may get rheumatism for life. BURGE-LUBIN. For life! That settles it: I wont risk it. CONFUCIUS. Good.
You saved my life, young man, when you took me in tow out there and navigated me to this desirable ice floe, and don't you forget it. You may bet your bottom dollar that I shall not, and there's my hand upon it, stranger. Now, let me introduce myself. I know who you are all right; you're Mr Cavendish, late fifth officer of the unsinkable steamship Everest, very recently gone to the bottom.
After all they had made better provision for the passengers the Titanic carried than any other line has done, for they had built what they believed to be a huge lifeboat, unsinkable in all ordinary conditions.
Those on a vessel skirting the shore could not fail to discover that incriminating bit of evidence with their glasses. And there was no way of getting rid of it. He could not destroy it with his bare hands. It was unsinkable. If he set it adrift, wind and sea would drive it straight back.
"Under the command of our chief officer, who worked indefatigably at the noble work of rescue, the survivors in Mrs. the boat were rapidly but carefully hauled aboard and given into the hands of the medical staff under the organization of Dr. McGee. "We then learned the terrible news that the gigantic vessel, the unsinkable Titanic, had gone down one hour and ten minutes after striking.
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