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A survivor of the Titanic disaster, Commander J.G. Boxhall, who was fourth officer on board the Titanie the night it sank. He is seen here advising Kenneth Moro- who is taking part in the Rank film now being mado of the Titanic.
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Courtesy J. Arthur Rank.
T this very moment, forty-six years ago, the Titanic was speeding across the Atlantic to keep a rendevous with death. At the same moment, an iceberg which had been lurking off the coast of New- foundland, began to move South.
--On Sunday evening, the IRANIA
fourteenth of April, the ice surrender the luxury of land
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SEOVAKIA
TITANIC
fury prey to the ice sea symbol of a conquering age ANTHONY FULLER
The actual encounter with the was on the bridge at the mo- the distance, the leeberg glow- leeberg seemed very slight. ment of collision with the lee ered and skulked in the gloom, that wulching her victim, and walt- Scarcely any were aware of il berg. There is rumour A slight jar at the most. No and Captain Smith on the ques- so that she
Ismaying to wander af in the dawn during a scene between
was never really one took any notice. An
in- tion
of the Titanic altering identified. spection revealed that thę ship cource, the ambitious Murdoch was ripped through waterlight sided with 'Ismly against Smith. compartment after compartment. Nothing could save her.
It was the very mystle nature of the "Titanic's death that cap tured public imagination. One colossel iceberg with a treach- STOUS underwater fang ld placed herself in the exact spot where she could murder the ship,
Th following Sunday, memorial services were held in churches all over the world. Newspapers were.published with heavy black borders Ike oki fashioned memorial cards. •
words
As the waler washed the for er deck, the passengers clustered We shall never know. tain, for although Ismay was together, Up till now they lind rescued, he never spoke of the been listening to the band,
and while some Usaster, Captain Smith
had been praying. “Murdoch went "pown with the other murmuring-but in the ship. That Ismay did intertera main. hope triumphed over in the ship's affairs is without despair. doubt, and perhaps the bravest words spoken to him were by Then, as light after light junior officer who told him to went dut, and they were left get to hell out of It," when to the mercy, of the lecbound may tried to give instructiono see, the bandmaster Tapped his abouï launching a life boat.
baton on this music stand.
S.O.S.
The band ceased playing its cheery Jazz numbers and broko Into the hymn tung, "Autumn," not "Nearer My Go To Thee," as popular legend has it.
"The band was playing as
the ship went down, "Nearer my God to Thee. "They came to save their lives, "Over the Ice-bound sea."
One the ship was doomed, wrong. All Clergymen spoke with sym- everything went pathy of the dead of but one that Sunday, the wirelcas opera- week, coffined in the huge ship wwa had been busy sending now resting at, the bottom ot trivolous messages for the pas- the Atlanile. But many spoke sengers who wanted to play with of arrogant pride and used as
the new fangled thing, a text the
of scripture
I quote the lines from memory, that say, "Go to, let us build a Just after midnight. the lot I heard them sung ata city and a tower, whose—toj..... All the worlds regarded her may reach unto heaven." And operators were told to top out performance-of-the-firstianic,
so it was that of the apex of a berg had pinpointed its for even the five days it took with wonder, they said of the rational age, the common people tional distress call of that time.
the letters, CQD, the Interna film at a Lontion cinema. position with mathematical to cross the Atlantic.
Titanic that it even God could spoke of Divine intervention, of God visitţi. Luxury never known before sink her.
A few miles away, the wire went down to the san, and de
In less operator on the Californian with the haughty might of
[----The-Titanic's-First-Classipas upon arrogant mankind. Nineveh and Babylon Panel senger list reads like a univer- spite of everything searching had tauleen off his carphones, Ile enquiries, eyewitness reports had sent the Titanic an ico led tirawing-rooms, heavy sub- sal Who's Who. J. Bruce Ismay, and the like, the mystery of the warning, now he was tired, so saved. Then, as the extent starial furniture, luxurious President of the White Star whole affoir has never been he went to bed. The Californ- of the disaster became known, carpets, a very palace niloni. Line; The Actors; the Stauses; cleared up. The question is why
Jan could have picked up the the whole world stopped work
the Titantie, and wondered, and prayed. She was 882.5 feet long; Mr. W. T. Stead; the Countess did Captain Smith, the master passengers
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u! the Titante, procted on his but the Californian's wireless feet wide; 175 feet from the of Rothes..
, course after the ship had re- officer was tired, so he never. I am told by people who ne keel to the top of her four
ceived so many ice wamings os heard the Titanic's CQD, nor member the event, that funnels..
accuracy, and waited for -the-unsinkable Titanic to
take up the challenge.
At the eleventh second of the éleventh minute, of the eleventh hour, the Titanle refused the head-on en counter, and swung to port, She seemed to have avoided combat, but from under the the iceberg black oily sea, reached a fang, sharpened by centuries of icy fury.
The Titanic had three screws, of reciprocating
of the wrath
from
The world refused to believe Tho ship had sunk. that the first newspaper reports gave it
but all the passengers that there had been a mishap,
were
Sunday
The
marked the end of an era the new fangled wireless?
the Inter SOS,
security and an over-confident
in We know that J. Bruco Ismay
material progress. About half-past-twelve, early belief
dinaster after was on the ship. He was Presi- Monday morning, the Carpathia From then on,
the age. engines, fach driving a wing it was Sunday evening, and dent of the White Star Line. received the CQD, and turned disaster overwhelmed
White Star Line badly back
The Two years later began the un- to aid the Titanje.
the first World War.
it
of
call
and two sets
propeller, and a turbine cugine
most passengers, - drove the centre blades. This
fastest Atlantic crossing. Did The iceberg ripped them a speed of 25 knots.
represented 65,000 horsepower, Cosmo Duff Gordon had gone to
bed; but a few lingered on in such an experienced command- The most remarkable feature the Cafe Parisien, or told stories ship's belly open, and left
er as Captain Smith allow him- ship her naked to the sea. For of the
was its sixteen In the magnificent bars, while self to be overruled by a land decided upon just before three hours, the Titanic lay it the Titanic was injured, she
watertight.compartments Even atern remote barmen mixed lubber? mortally wounded, then, could float with two compart drinks, and railed deferentially We know that First Officer
as the Lady needed the Blue Ribbon for the Carpathia was sixty miles away, versal slaughter that men
with a gasp of despair, she ments flooded.
plunged to the bottom of
the Atlantic where she will
lie until the sea gives up
its dead..
Palace
The Titanic, built at Belfast
at the shipyards of Harland ond Wolff, was the arrogant symbol of a materialistic age that would
forever. endure
Everywhere -was-man-triumphänt.During the pust century he had removed mountains, changed the course of rivers, spanned whole-Con- tinents with his railways, and driven back the.sca from his Janda,
The heavens were black with the smoke of his chimneys
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his factories spied out wealth that would never cease, Nataire had at last bent her knee
and rurrendered sto man who had enslaved her. Even the skies experienced the humllinion of for men's arrogant encounter, he burled his machines and rode. the flecky clouds with ever in- creasing confidence,
So came the unsinkable ship. The arrogant' aristocrats of the new wealth were unwilling to
when brought into the joke.
The Titanic, This photograph was taken in
`ship. left, to keep rendezvouk with death
Murdoch, an
· had been A new cal-sign
The writer would like to ex- the
presa his thanks to Mr George Titende salled, the easy... --- the SOS. This call was Rearden of the Rank Organisa- sent out. On the horizon could ion, and the research depart ambitious man, be seen the lights of another ment of J. Arthur Rank, who ship. It was the Californian. It supplied him with the data and.
pictures for this article. was the Titanic's only hope.
Arthur. Rank's are making
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An hour and a half before she film of the Titanic. Uic biggest ever to emerge from Hank's foundered, the Titanic acut up studios, based 911 Mr Walter
a burst of rockets. They were
seen by members of the Call Lord's fact-finding book, fomnion's crew. They wondered Night To Reaumber."
what next. this super monster
of the deep would to. Did the passengers of the Titanic never 01 sleep? Fancy firing rockeis one o'clock in the morning!
So, while the Carpathia raced Through the night, and the Call- fornian clumbered a few mits Titanic away, the unsinkable. hegan to go down. At first, there
Everyone was no panic, boord knew they iravelfod the unainkable ship, but as the water began to creep across 'the decks, the order to get into the boats was obeyed.
on on
There wero insufficient boals. Only about "one-third- of the passengers could be accommod atod, and not all of them had gone, having more faith in the jolalmis minde “for the ship than the evidence around there, Just after 2 han,” it was at last, ap parent to all on the ship that They would sink. The thought of mikvival in that lay black ley you was, out of the question. In
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