The Ship of Dreams by Gareth Russell

Author:Gareth Russell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

I. The davits could have accommodated a second vertical row of lifeboats, which was added to the Olympic after the Titanic’s sinking. Prior to the disaster, it was felt too many lifeboats would clutter the Boat Deck.

CHAPTER 14 Vox faucibus haesit

Entreat me not to leave thee, or to turn from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go…

Ruth 1:16

THE COUNTESS, HER MAID, AND Gladys Cherry did not go into the Lounge and obeyed the Captain’s earlier request to them that they congregate on the Boat Deck, where they again heard the din created by the ferocious screams from the forward three funnels as the safety valves attached to the Titanic’s boilers continued to release steam from below.1 “The noise when we got up was appalling,” Noëlle wrote, an assessment supported by one of the Titanic’s officers who compared the roar from the funnels to “a thousand railway engines thundering through a culvert.”2 From where they stood, the Countess, like Jack Thayer on the opposite side of the deck, saw white distress rockets streak hundreds of feet into the sky above her.3 The bellowing of the funnels finally stopped as her party were marshaled into lines by Second Officer Charles Lightoller in preparation for loading lifeboats 6 and 8.4 By this point, it is possible that the Countess, at least, had begun to appreciate something of the seriousness of the situation, since Cissy had apparently also heard and repeated the rumor about the flooding in the Squash Court.5

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