The Wreck of the Titan: Or, FutilityMcClure's magazine and Metropolitan magazine, 1912 - 243 sivua Fictional novella originally written in 1898 about an unsinkable passenger ship called the Titan. Close parallels to the Titanic -- both were unsinkable, both struck icebergs, both were on their maiden voyages, only one-third of the passengers on each ship survived, the elite of the time were on board both ships, and both ships were encouraged to break speed records. |
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ahead amblyopia answered Denman answered Forsythe arms asked barratry Billie Billings boat boatswain box the compass breakfast bridge bunk cabin called Captain Barry Captain Bryce Casey CHAPTER child close command companion cook craft crew Daniels deadlight deck destroyer door engine room eyes face feet fight fire fist Florrie Florrie's fore forecastle Forsythe's forward Foster full speed galley hatch girl hand Hawkes head heard horizon Jenkins John Rowland jujutsu life-buoy lifted light locked looked lookout Metcalf Meyer Munson muttered Myra navigation neckerchief night officer old Kelly opened parole periscope pistol port prisoner rail Riley Ross sail sailor Sampson screamed seaman apprentice Selfridge sextant ship shouted sleep smile smoke soon starboard steam steamer stern taffrail tell Titan torpedo tube turned uncon voice waited wardroom watch wheel WILLIAM DENMAN wireless woman
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Sivu 3 - She was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession, and trade known to civilization. On her bridge were officers, who, besides being...
Sivu 4 - ... well-drilled fire-company soothed the fears of nervous ones and added to the general entertainment by daily practice with their apparatus. From her lofty bridge ran hidden telegraph lines to the bow, stern engine-room, crow's-nest on the foremast, and to all parts of the ship where work was done, each wire terminating in a marked dial with a movable indicator, containing in its scope every order and answer required in handling the massive hulk, either at the dock or at sea which eliminated, to...
Sivu 4 - She was eight hundred feet long, of seventy thousand tons' displacement, seventy-five thousand horse-power, and on her trial trip had steamed at a rate of twenty-five knots an hour over the bottom, in the face of unconsidered winds, tides, and currents. In short, she was a floating city — containing within her steel walls all that tends to minimize the dangers and discomforts of the Atlantic voyage — all that makes life enjoyable. Unsinkable — indestructible, she carried as few boats as would...
Sivu 3 - In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession, and trade known to civilization. On her bridge were officers, who, besides being the pick of the Royal Navy, had passed rigid examinations in all studies that pertained to the winds, tides, currents, and geography of the sea; they were not only seamen, but scientists. The same professional standard applied to the personnel of the engine-room, and the steward's department was equal to that of a first-class hotel. Two brass...
Sivu 26 - Forty-five thousand tons — deadweight — rushing through the fog at the rate of fifty feet a second had hurled itself at an iceberg.
Sivu 208 - ... laying in supplies. And when they learned — from young Mr. Smith — that among these supplies was a large assortment of plain-glass spectacles, of no magnifying power whatever, the ridicule was unanimous and heartfelt; even the newspapers taking up the case from the old standpoint and admitting that the line ought to be drawn at lunatics and foolish people. But Lieutenant Metcalf smiled and went quietly ahead, asking for and receiving orders to scout.
Sivu 26 - But a low beach, possibly formed by the recent overturning of the berg, received the Titan, and with her keel cutting the ice like the steel runner of an...
Sivu 210 - All right. Look out for Japanese craft. War is declared." Metcalf plotted a new course, designed to intercept that of the mysterious craft, and went on, so elated by the news he had heard that he took his gossipy young executive into his confidence. " Mr. Smith," he said, " that sealer described one of the new seagoing submersibles of the Japanese, did he not?
Sivu 212 - Hawaiian, and one for the coast. You overdid things, Saiksi. If you hadn't set fire to that sealer the other day, I might not have found you. It was a senseless piece of work that did you no good. Oh, you are a sweet character ! How do you get your ultraviolet rays — by filtration or prismatic dispersion?