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Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Everett, Marshall
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks
Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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WRECK OF THE TITANIC 97 But the exception was very important. Obviously thegreat ship was proceeding at a high rate of speed underorders of the captain, who just as obviously was tryingto carry- out the instructions of his employers. If theTitanic was not as fast a ship as the Lusitania or theMauretania she was expected to make a good record onher maiden trip, which could not be done unless sheheld to a prescribed route. It was certainly in thepower of Mr. Ismay to have the Titanics course changedto the south when dangerous ice was reported ahead.The warning had come by wireless from the Amerikathe day before the disaster. But to take at once amore southerly course would have involved a loss intime of several hours at least on the maiden voyage ofthe great Titanic. After the tragic event it seems criminal that thecourse was not changed if the new ship was to bedriven on at a speed of 21 knots. The alternative wasto proceed slowly through the ice field, but at a rate tokeep her under p

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