타이타닉호의 침몰.Sinking of the Titanic, by Various

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Sinking of the Titanic
and Great Sea Disasters
Author: Various
Editor: Logan Marshall
영국의 초호화여객선 타이타닉호의 침몰에 대해서 쓴책임.
FACTS ABOUT THE
WRECK OF THE
TITANIC
NUMBER of persons aboard, 2340. Number of life- boats and rafts,
20. Capacity of each life- boat, 50 passengers and crew of 8.
Utmost capacity of life- boats and rafts, about 1100. Number of life？boats wrecked in launching, 4. Capacity of life- boats safely
launched, 928. Total number of persons taken in life- boats, 711.
Number who died in life- boats, 6. Total number saved, 705. Total
number of Titanic's company lost, 1635.
The cause of the disaster was a collision with an iceberg in
latitude 41.46 north, longitude 50.14 west. The Titanic had had
repeated warnings of the presence of ice in that part of the course.
Two official warnings had been received defining the position of the
ice fields. It had been calculated on the Titanic that she would reach
the ice fields about 11 o'clock Sunday night. The collision occurred
at 11.40. At that time the ship was driving at a speed of 21 to 23
knots, or about 26 miles, an hour.
There had been no details of seamen assigned to each boat.
Some of the boats left the ship without seamen enough to man
the oars.
Some of the boats were not more than half full of passengers.
The boats had no provisions, some of them had no water stored,
some were without sail equipment or compasses.
In some boats, which carried sails wrapped and bound, there was
not a person with a knife to cut the ropes. In some boats the plugs
in the bottom had been pulled out and the women passengers were
compelled to thrust their hands into the holes to keep the boats
from filling and sinking.
The captain, E. J. Smith, admiral of the White Star fleet, went
down with his ship.