built set forth on its maiden voyage. "The British liner Titanic

had a double bottomed hull, divided into sixteen watertight

compartments. Because as many as four of these could be

completely flooded without endangering the ship's buoyancy, the

Titanic was considered unsinkable" (Winocour 1960: 12). On the

fateful night of April 14, shortly before midnight, the great

liner was steaming through the foggy North Atlantic when it

collided with an enormous iceberg. A 300 foot gash was ripped in

the ship's right side, rupturing five of its watertight

compartments. The Titanic sank into the icy depths, claiming

A tragic, though often untold story about that night

concerns one man on another ship, less than 20 miles away from

the Titanic. The other vessel was the Californian, and it could

have come to the rescue of the sinking liner, if someone had been

listening. Unfortunately, the radio operator had fallen asleep

on duty. When help finally reached the disaster area it was too

late to save more than a few lives (Wade 1979: 238). The very

greatness of the Titanic had caused her crew and passengers to

Alcohol is not to be sold to anyone under legal drinking age.

liberty of speech and freedom of press, subject to the necessary

Pornography constitutes a direct attack on significant

filth would eventually excrete a magazine like Hustler, sold

Today's generation, by and large, regard it as neutral. A place

Stephens, Patrick. 1987. Disasters at Sea. Ed. by Milton Watson.

Freedom of the press means the liberty to publish, but it

history. "Playboy's successive manipulations and distortions of

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