The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912. A GREAT DISASTER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 92, 18 April 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912. A GREAT DISASTER.

The toss of the great White Star liner Titanic, it is now evident beyond all doubt, is one of the greatest marine disasters in time of peace the world has yet seen, .and with the sinking of till is latest and greatest triumph of the shipbuilder’s art, on her very first voy'age across the Atlantic, the loss of life, is apalling. The lost liner was launched on May 31st last 'from the yards of Messrs Haitand and Wolff in Belfast. Particulars of the .measurement, tonnage, and speed of the vessel are: Length over all, 882 ft 9in; breadth, extreme, 92ft Gin; depth, moulded, from top of beam, bridge deck, to keel, 73ft Gin ; gross tonnage, about 45,000 tons, load 'draught, 34ft Gin ; displacement, about ,60,000 tons; indicated horsepower of reciprocating engines, 30,000; shaft horse power of turbine, 16,000; speed, 21 knots. Both the Titanic and the Olympic had accommodation for 750 first-class, 550 sec-ond-class, and 1100 third-class passengers. There were 10 decks, and on seven—promenade, bridge, shelter, saloon, upper, middle, and lower—passengers, are carried. On the five decks from the upper to the promenade first-class passengers were quartered ; ou the middlof upper and .saloon decks second-class passengers; and on the lower deck fcrw'ard and aft, .and the middle, upper and saloon decks aft, third-class passengers. All through, her fittings were most magnificent, and every .modern luxury was provided even to flower garden's. The disaster will fall like a thunderclap on .the shipping world, for by every known standard of calculation the Titanic should have been unsi.ukablo and the safest, vessel afloat, equipped as she was with every device and invention ever elaborated to reduce the dangers 'and uncertainties of navigation to a minimum. 'But the strength of the sea yet prevails, and man’s skill a,ml ingenuity are again sot at naught, and human pride is once more brought low.