Chapter 442 Wrong Command
The light is the waves caused by the "collision" of sea water and ice.
On a calm night, no one would feel that there is anything that would block their navigation on the wide, unobstructed sea surface.
The crew thought so.
The captain thought so too.
At this moment, the Titanic is sailing at a speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour, which is extremely fast.
At this time, the captain also received a signal from a ship also sailing in the North Atlantic.
They are all warning that due to the mild winter, icebergs that originally only drifted within a certain area have now arrived in the North Atlantic.
All ships must drive carefully and avoid glaciers during navigation, otherwise there is a risk of collision and crash.
After receiving the news, Titanic's captain Smith Leake notified the crew to look for a telescope.
After searching for a long time, I still found nothing.
No one knows that at this moment, the only telescope on the ship is stored at the bottom of a locked iron cabinet.
The deputy captain, who holds the key to the iron cabinet, did not board the cruise ship due to some personal reasons.
By the way, it is worth mentioning that normal cruise ship sailing does not actually require such extremely fast speeds.
This is extremely dangerous.
The North Atlantic is not the kind of safe navigation area where you can see at a glance that there are no obstacles around you.
On the contrary, the sea conditions here are extremely complex.
And in this kind of North Atlantic, where an obstacle may suddenly pop up, increasing the speed to 23 knots, or at night when the line of sight is blocked, the level of danger is tantamount to pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth.
The person who issued this order was Joseph, the designer of the cruise ship and the chairman of the shipping company.
Joseph also boarded the cruise ship.
Although the Titanic was designed and built to be very luxurious, there were also fatal mistakes.
In order to make the ship's deck more open.
Joseph strongly demanded that the number of lifeboats be reduced in order to achieve the result of flowing out of the vast space.
Of course, it was Joseph who gave the order for the Titanic to sail at full speed.
The reason for making this decision was simply because he wanted to test the maximum speed of the cruise ship.
And in order to achieve his goal, he didn't even mind using the thousands of lives on the entire ship as a foil.
The crew did not find the lookout glass.
I had to stand on the deck, next to the ship's side, looking far into the distance and observing the surrounding navigation environment.
But here comes the problem.
During such a fast voyage, how can it be possible to tell with the naked eye whether there are any obstructions nearby?
Facts have proved that it is really clear...
Of course, this embarrassing question will be ignored for the time being.
When the crew member observed a hazy black shadow not far away, his heart skipped a beat, and he sounded the alarm all the time, and then reported the situation to the captain.
After receiving the report, the captain immediately issued instructions.
The Titanic immediately slowed down and then turned left.
But there seems to be some problem with this operation.
Although the instructions were issued very quickly while driving at a rapid speed, when all the crew members immediately followed the captain's instructions, a large black shadow appeared within the distance of the Titanic. Oh, it can be done now It is said to be an iceberg, but it seems to be less than 500 meters away.
Originally it was driving at a high speed.
If you want to slow down, you must lower the propellers of the entire cabin to the bottom.
But this resulted in the inability of the throttle to supply enough force. With this deceleration, the left turn also slowed down.
In the end, there was no time to completely avoid the iceberg, and the right side of the hull still collided with the iceberg.
The side of the ship suddenly broke and the cabin leaked.
The night is approaching 12 o'clock at midnight. It was supposed to be time for a deep sleep.
So when they sensed the impact, some people had no time to react as to what exactly happened.
The hull is huge, so when the side of the ship collides with the iceberg, the shaking of the hull is not that violent.
The people who perceive it most clearly are not the upper class people in the most luxurious cabins.
Instead, it was the people in the third-class cabin at the bottom.
The cabin was torn open and seawater poured in.
The captain sent out a distress signal, asking for help from a ship sailing in Beida Township to come to the rescue.
Many ships responded to the signal and came one after another.
But the North Atlantic is so wide.
There are countless ships sailing on the sea.
Unfortunately, the Titanic was the closest ship to them, and under power sailing, it would take at least four hours to reach them.
There is actually another ship in the nearby waters.
However, due to the different regions, the rescue signal sent by the captain was not understood by the captain of that ship.
At this point, the only thing the Titanic faced was the ending of being alone and silent.
The passengers finally realized what happened to the Titanic.
Countless passengers were on the verge of emotional collapse.
In order to appease the passengers, the captain ordered the orchestra to play music to calm everyone's uneasiness and fear.
Until the last moment of the cruise ship sinking, the band still maintained the captain's order. In the end, all the members of the band, together with the instruments they played, followed the Titanic and sank to the bottom of the sea.
After the discussion, Smith issued an order to activate the lifeboat to escort a group of people away first.
Women and children come first.
But this kind of self-rescue behavior still has unfair treatment.
Because no one cares, people at the bottom of society originally lived in third class.
First, those who left in the lifeboat were men, women, and children whose social status was far above them.
Even the first lifeboat that was lowered was not full. It was filled with noble aristocratic women and children, who were not willing to share the rest of their deeds with the common people at the bottom.
Thought this was an insult to them.
The guns held by the crew blocked the third-class cabin crew from taking the lifeboat.
There was no way, even though many lifeboat seats were not full, they still fled in a hurry and refused to call more people to get on.
Those who were refused boarding the lifeboat had no choice but to jump into the low-temperature sea wearing life jackets.
Faced with such a desperate scene.
The lifeboat did not choose to lend a helping hand to them.
Because I am afraid that the cruise ship will be trapped in the whirlpool in the sea and be sucked into it.
In fact, after escaping from the locked cabin, Jack had been persuading Rose to let him leave in the lifeboat first.
Rose was among those eligible to leave in a lifeboat.
Even his status as a noble girl can provide him with convenience.
Rose hesitated and was persuaded by Jack, and walked towards the lifeboat step by step.
But at the last moment, he turned around and returned to Jack's arms without hesitation.
He was unwilling to leave early. He wanted to advance and retreat together with Jack, and he had to see with his own eyes that Jack was safe before he could rest assured.
(End of this chapter)