MR HOLMAN'S REPLY.
SYDNEY, Juno 3. Mr Holman, referring to the criticisms of hie remarks, says that it does not require expert knowledge to understand tho fact that a ship moving slowly is run down by another ship moving in tho same direction, with no head-on impact, and no full speed smash into an iceberg, as in the Titanic disaster. If tho skill of the naval architect cannot guaranteo, under these circumstances, that a ship will float for half an hour after she has been struck, if no such things as watertight compartments and buoyancy chambers aro known to naval architecture, the sooner tho fact is proclaimed tho bettor. Passengers must bo mado aware by the directors of shipping companies that impact from another ship overtaking theirs may bo followed by almost instantaneous destruction. Then, perhaps, they will insist on ships not travelling in fogs with 1500 lives aboard. Tho extreme delicacy of tho structuro will bo recognised, and murdoroiis risks will not be taken.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 7
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165MR HOLMAN'S REPLY. Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 7
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