Four Mile Post August 2011

Of First Importance

 Survivors of the Titanic disaster all agree on one point.  After the ship struck the iceberg, some twenty life-boats were launched from the crippled ocean liner.  They were too few and most of them were only partially filled with passengers.  The idea was to wait for the Titanic to sink below the waves and avoid the sucking force of the vortex in her wake that could plunge them to the bottom of the ocean.  Once the ship had slipped beneath the surface, the life-boats were supposed to return and rescue any of the passengers that have ended up in the icy seas.  But only Lifeboat No. 14 returned back to the scene of the sinking.  It followed the screams of people in the darkness, but it found only precious few.  The other lifeboats rowed aimlessly in the night, listening to the cries of the lost.  Each feared that a crowd of swimmers would cling to the craft, eventually swamping it. 

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