Titanic and Other Ships Quotes

“By 1 a.m. she was getting very low and at a still more acute angle. It seemed it could only be a matter of minutes before she took her final dip. How the minutes dragged by with nothing to do. It was bad enough in the Titanic”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships

“We were bound home on that fateful August 4, 1914, when we got the brief message that hostilities had broken out and were advised to ‘deviate from the recognised tracks.’ We did deviate, too, for we saw no fun in being captured in a fine ship like the Oceanic, right at the outbreak of war.”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships

“The order implicitly obeyed was”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships

“Each day”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships

“In a word”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships

“So”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships

“day”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships

“The other branch goes north”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships

“happens in these cases. One of the most glaring instances was that in which the Volturno on fire in mid-Atlantic”
― Charles Herbert Lightoller, Titanic & Other Ships