Then the Olympic broke in: Why not transfer the Titanic’s survivors to her? Rostron thoughtthis was an appalling idea – he couldn’t see subjecting these people to another transfer at sea.Besides, the Olympic was the Titanic’s sister ship and the sight alone would be like a hideousghost
Maybe the Olympic wanted to carry all of the Titanic survivors back to shore because they were sister ships. I also wonder if the Olympic had enough life boats to fir everyone in.
Go Away – We Have Just Seen Our Husbands Drown
Interesting chapter title. This must be what some of the wives must be thinking.
He called the news down the speaking tube
Aren't these the things that they have at playgrounds? Do you think they stole them from the playgrounds?😏
Phillips went on working. Bride began to gather up their papers. Captain Smith returned tothe boat deck, walked about speaking informally to men here and there.
These events seem unusually calm for when a boat is sinking.
With the boats all gone
I remember reading somewhere in a different book that they did not fill the boats up all the way and mabey about half filled. I think that they could have fit about two or three hundred more people in the boats.
what rockets meant
They should have launched them right when the Titanic hit the ice and maybe that would have woken up some more of the people.
Like Lowe, he was off duty in his bunk when the Titanic hit, but he woke up instantly and, inhis bare feet, ran out on the boat deck to see what was up.
It is good that people on the ship reacted instantly when the Titanic hit the ice. People like these are the ones to save more of the people on the Titanic.
Mrs Ryerson pondered what to do
I wonder what she is thinking. She could be thinking, "Is the unsinkable Titanic sinking?"
Lawrence Beesley
Now he has noticed something. It is good that he is trying to see what is going on. Would you have noticed the changes? If you would have, what would you do?
silence stirred the passengers.
They must have noticed that everything got silent soon after they heard the scrape from the iceberg.
Lawrence Beesley
He seems unsuspecting. Mabey he noticed that the mattress stopped moving.
leet phoned the warning.
Why did he not do this earlier or before the crash? The Titanic was too huge to turn in that quick of a time. They also should have taken the hit head-on because the bow of a ship is made to take hits like that. But, I guess that they wanted to try to avoid the hit fully if possible. But knowing what happens, that did not happen.
gossiping about their passengers
I wonder what they were saying. They were also very unsuspecting of what was about to happen.