All the boats together could carry 1,178 people. On this Sunday night there were 2,207 people on board the Titanic. This mathematical discrepancy was known by none of the passengers and few of the crew, but most of them wouldn’t have cared anyhow. The Titanic was unsinkable. Everybody said so. When Mrs. Albert Caldwell was watching the deck hands carry up luggage at Southampton, she asked one of them, “Is this ship really nonsinkable?” “Yes, lady,” he answered. “God himself could not sink this ship.”
