Sinking of the "Titanic" : $b most appalling ocean horror; with graphic descriptions of hundreds swept to eternity beneath the waves ...Mowbray, Jay Henry
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Sinking of the "Titanic" : $b most appalling ocean horror; with graphic descriptions of hundreds swept to eternity beneath the waves ...
Mowbray, Jay Henry
Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- History -- 20th century; Titanic (Steamship)
One reform that is likely to take shape early as a result of the
Senatorial investigation is a more thorough regulation of wireless
telegraphy both in shore stations and on ships at sea. Interference
by irresponsible operators will probably be checked by governmental
action, and the whole subject may come up for uniform international
regulation in the Berlin conference.
It is conceded that on all ships the receiving apparatus of the
wireless instruments should be manned at all hours of the day and
night, just as are the ship’s bridge and the engine rooms. The Senate
inquiry has showed that had the death call of the Titanic gone out five
minutes later it would never have reached the Carpathia, whose one
wireless operator was about to retire for the night when he heard the
signal that took the Cunarder to the rescue of the seven hundred who
survived.
There has been shown, too, grave need of some cure for the jealousies
and rivalries between competing systems of wireless. To the Frankfurt,
which was one of the nearest, if not the nearest, of the several ships
to the sinking Titanic, her operator sent the curt message, “Shut
up!” From the Californian the operator refused to take a message,
which proved to be an ice warning, because “he was busy with his
accounts.” With the sanction of high officers of their company wireless
operators have suppressed vital public information for the purpose of
commercializing their exclusive knowledge for personal profit.
So much for the Titanic’s boasted equipment--or the lack of it. There
remains to be summarized the evidence adduced as to the personnel and
discipline, as these were indicated by what occurred after the ship
confronted the direst of all emergencies.
The Titanic was expected to make a record on her maiden voyage. She
made one unapproached in ocean annals; one which, it is hoped, may long
stand unparalleled.
REPORT CENSURES CAPTAIN OF CALIFORNIAN.
Says All Passengers Might Have been Saved but for Captain Lord’s
Indifference.
TITANIC COMMITTEE’S REPORT.
That the Titanic was rushing at a speed of 24½ miles an hour when she
crashed into the iceberg.
That of 2223 persons aboard, only 32 per cent. were saved.
That all might have been saved but for “negligent indifference” of the
steamship Californian to the Titanic’s distress signals.
That those rescued comprised: Sixty per cent. of the first-class
passengers, 42 per cent. of second-class, 25 per cent. of third-class
and 24 per cent. of the crew.
That four warnings of “ice ahead” were ignored by the Titanic’s
officers.
That the Titanic struck at 10.13 P. M. on Sunday, April 14, and sank
at 12.47 A. M. (New York time) on April 15.
That eight vessels were near at time of the collision with the iceberg
and only the Carpathia went to the assistance of the Titanic.
That there was no panic, but a “short” crew, poorly drilled and poorly
commanded, only enough men to partially man the twenty lifeboats.
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