I'm really - there's more of a chance that I stay on the Titanic than - than I go on, you know, on a Donald Trump boat.
The Titanic will protect itself.
Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.
There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
It was a civilian ship, and the Lusitania could outrun any submarine. So this population of people was very confident that Cunard and the Royal Navy would be looking after them. Why weren't they under convoy? That's the real question.
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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