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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York and quickly learned the es- sentials of the missteps that led to disaster. To America, Ismay From Page 17 was the devil. Defensively, Ismay said: "I tell you that if I thought that in the There was reputation at stake. slightest way I had done wrong, I What lay 10 minutes ahead was would never have a happy mo- everlasting shame. ment." Indications are he never At 11:40 p.m., lookout Freder- did. ick Fleet in the crow’s nest saw There were the obvious sensi- an iceberg in the calm sea di- ble reforms, including require- rectly ahead and sent a warning ments for sufficient lifeboats and below. Thirty-seven seconds 24-hour staffing in radio rooms. later, the submerged edge of a An International Ice Patrol was massive iceberg bashed against created. the steel-plate skin of the Ti- The Germans soon launched tanic’s starboard (right) side, an even larger ship, the 909-foot near the bow. Shards of ice Imperator, but it was top-heavy punched through portholes. and swayed too much for com- More ice plopped onto the third- fort. Then came World War I and class recreation deck, where German submarines, which tor- steerage passengers tossed pedoed both the Lusitania and pieces about in frolic. the Carpathia. Passenger liners A few decks below, 28-degree resumed their comfortable trade seawater poured into forward after that war and, for a time, holds. Alarmed engineers shut after World War II. But reliable jet electric-operated doors to seal engines finally ended the trans- the ship’s 16 watertight compart- Atlantic liner business. ments — a ballyhooed safety fea- In 1985, deep-sea searchers ture and a big part of the myth of working with the National Geo- unsinkability. But the impact al- graphic Society found the wreck lowed water into six of the com- of the Titanic in two large sec- partments, two too many to keep tions 2.5 miles below the surface. the ship afloat. There was no 300-foot gash on The Titanic was doomed. the starboard hull, just a series Capt. Smith knew the math of rips. Bad riveting at the Belfast within a few cold-sweat minutes. yard may have been a big factor. He ordered the lifeboats un- ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/MCT The night Titanic sank, 9- covered at 12:05 a.m. and, a few The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg the night before. German artist Willy Stoewer visualized the , as sur- vivors struggled to get away. month-old Millvina Dean had minutes later, instructed Phillips been lowered in a mail sack to a to begin tapping distress calls. lifeboat. Her father, Bertram, was But his clicks went unheard on vivors. Fear of being swamped by known to history as "Unsinkable brandy and coffee. Ismay, asking More than 30,000 people awaited lost. They were steerage the Californian, then only 10 frantic swimmers kept the rest Molly." to be left alone, stayed in his her at Pier 54. passengers. miles away. The Carpathia, an away. Mrs. J.J. Brown of Denver When Carpathia arrived, its room and was soothed by Members of Congress and the Millvina Dean died May 31, eastbound Cunard liner 58 miles tried loudly to shame the seamen crew brought up the shivering opiates. newspapers pounced on Ismay 2009, at age 97 in , away, heeded Phillips’ plea and commanding No. 6 to row back, and dumbstruck survivors and Carpathia, delayed by fog, fi- from the moment he landed. Sen- , the Titanic’s home port. steamed hard to the rescue. but they were unmoved. She is treated them with blankets, nally reached New York April 18. ators convened a hearing at the She was the last survivor. The Titanic fired numerous rockets. Lookouts on the Californ- ian, still stopped by ice, never fig- ured out what they were for. On the Titanic, confused crew members began rousting passen- SPRING gers. The evacuation was disor- Need Need more?more? SaveSave more!more! Spring Spring CarCar CareCare Brakes Brakes Squealing? Squealing? ganized, largely because White $ 95 $ 95 Star hadn’t bothered much with FREE TRANSMISSION FRONT DISC practice. The gentlemanly call 129 SERVICE W/FILTER 129 BRAKE SPECIAL was for , • Synthetic Fluid Extra Charge Includes: Alignment • Install new front disc brake pads

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