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First
of
all
the
covers
had
to
be
taken
off
and
the
heavy
masts
and
sails
lifted
out
of
them
.
Ship
's
boats
appear
very
small
things
when
one
sees
a
line
of
them
swinging
high
up
on
deck
;
but
,
as
a
matter
of
fact
,
they
are
extremely
heavy
,
each
of
them
the
size
of
a
small
sailing
yacht
.
Everything
on
the
Titanic
having
been
newly
painted
,
everything
was
stiff
and
difficult
to
move
.
The
lashings
of
the
heavy
canvas
covers
were
like
wire
,
and
the
covers
themselves
like
great
boards
;
the
new
ropes
ran
stiffly
in
the
new
gear
.
At
last
a
boat
was
cleared
and
the
order
given
,
"
Women
and
children
first
.
"
The
officers
had
revolvers
in
their
hands
ready
to
prevent
a
rush
;
but
there
was
no
rush
.
There
was
a
certain
amount
of
laughter
.
No
one
wanted
to
be
the
first
to
get
into
the
boat
and
leave
the
ship
.
"
Come
on
,
"
cried
the
officers
.
There
was
a
pause
,
followed
by
the
brief
command
,
"
Put
them
in
.
"
The
crew
seized
the
nearest
women
and
pushed
or
lifted
them
over
the
rail
into
the
first
boat
,
which
was
now
hanging
over
the
side
level
with
the
deck
.
But
they
were
very
unwilling
to
go
.
The
boat
,
which
looked
big
and
solid
on
the
deck
,
now
hung
dizzily
seventy-five
feet
over
the
dark
water
;
it
seemed
a
far
from
attractive
prospect
to
get
into
it
and
go
out
on
to
the
cold
sea
,
especially
as
everyone
was
convinced
that
it
was
a
merely
formal
precaution
which
was
being
taken
,
and
that
the
people
in
the
boats
would
merely
be
rowed
off
a
little
way
and
kept
shivering
on
the
cold
sea
for
a
time
and
then
brought
back
to
the
ship
when
it
was
found
that
the
danger
was
past
.
For
,
walking
about
the
deck
,
people
remembered
all
the
things
that
they
had
been
thinking
and
saying
since
first
they
had
seen
the
Titanic
;
and
what
was
the
use
of
travelling
by
an
unsinkable
ship
if
,
at
the
first
alarm
of
danger
,
one
had
to
leave
her
and
row
out
on
the
icy
water
?
Obviously
it
was
only
the
old
habit
of
the
sea
asserting
itself
,
and
Captain
Smith
,
who
had
hitherto
been
such
a
favourite
,
was
beginning
to
be
regarded
as
something
of
a
nuisance
with
his
ridiculous
precautions
.
The
boats
swung
and
swayed
in
the
davits
;
even
the
calm
sea
,
now
that
they
looked
at
it
more
closely
,
was
seen
to
be
not
absolutely
like
a
millpond
,
but
to
have
a
certain
movement
on
its
surface
which
,
although
utterly
helpless
to
move
the
huge
bulk
of
the
Titanic
,
against
whose
sides
it
lapped
,
as
ineffectually
as
against
the
walls
of
a
dock
,
was
enough
to
impart
a
swinging
movement
to
the
small
boats
.
But
at
last
,
what
with
coercion
and
persuasion
,
a
boat
was
half
filled
with
women
.
One
of
the
things
they
liked
least
was
leaving
their
husbands
;
they
felt
that
they
were
being
sacrificed
needlessly
to
over-elaborate
precautions
,
and
it
was
hard
to
leave
the
men
standing
comfortably
on
the
firm
deck
,
sheltered
and
in
a
flood
of
warm
yellow
light
,
and
in
the
safety
of
the
great
solid
ship
that
lay
as
still
as
a
rock
,
while
they
had
to
go
out
,
half-clad
and
shivering
,
on
the
icy
waters
.
But
the
inexorable
movements
of
the
crew
continued
.
The
pulleys
squealed
in
the
sheaves
,
the
new
ropes
were
paid
out
;
and
jerking
downwards
,
a
foot
or
two
at
a
time
,
the
first
boat
dropped
down
towards
the
water
,
past
storey
after
storey
of
the
great
structure
,
past
rows
and
rows
of
lighted
portholes
,
until
at
last
,
by
strange
unknown
regions
of
the
ship
's
side
,
where
cataracts
and
waterfalls
were
rushing
into
the
sea
,
it
rested
on
the
waves
.
The
blocks
were
unhooked
,
the
heavy
ash
oars
were
shipped
,
and
the
boat
headed
away
into
the
darkness
.
And
then
,
and
not
till
then
,
those
in
the
boat
realized
that
something
was
seriously
wrong
with
the
Titanic
.
Instead
of
the
trim
level
appearance
which
she
presented
on
the
picture
postcards
or
photographs
,
she
had
an
ungraceful
slant
downwards
to
the
bows
a
heavy
helpless
appearance
like
some
wounded
monster
that
is
being
overcome
by
the
waters
.
And
even
while
they
looked
,
they
could
see
that
the
bow
was
sinking
lower
.
After
the
first
boat
had
got
away
,
there
was
less
difficulty
about
the
others
.
The
order
,
"
Women
and
children
first
,
"
was
rigidly
enforced
by
the
officers
;
but
it
was
necessary
to
have
men
in
the
boats
to
handle
them
,
and
a
number
of
stewards
,
and
many
grimy
figures
of
stokers
who
had
mysteriously
appeared
from
below
were
put
into
them
to
man
them
.
Once
the
tide
of
people
began
to
set
into
the
boats
and
away
from
the
ship
,
there
came
a
certain
anxiety
to
join
them
and
not
to
be
left
behind
.
Here
and
there
indeed
there
was
over-anxiety
,
which
had
to
be
roughly
checked
.
One
band
of
Italians
from
the
steerage
,
who
had
good
reason
to
know
that
something
was
wrong
,
tried
to
rush
one
of
the
boats
,
and
had
to
be
kept
back
by
force
,
an
officer
firing
a
couple
of
shots
with
his
pistol
;
they
desisted
,
and
were
hauled
back
ignominiously
by
the
legs
.
In
their
place
some
of
the
crew
and
the
passengers
who
were
helping
lifted
in
a
number
of
Italian
women
limp
with
fright
.
And
still
everyone
was
walking
about
and
saying
that
the
ship
was
unsinkable
.
There
was
a
certain
subdued
excitement
,
natural
to
those
who
feel
that
they
are
taking
part
in
a
rather
thrilling
adventure
which
will
give
them
importance
in
the
eyes
of
people
at
home
when
they
relate
it
.
There
was
as
yet
no
call
for
heroism
,
because
,
among
the
first-class
passengers
certainly
,
the
majority
believed
that
the
safest
as
well
as
the
most
comfortable
place
was
the
ship
.
But
it
was
painful
for
husbands
and
wives
to
be
separated
,
and
the
wives
sent
out
to
brave
the
discomforts
of
the
open
boats
while
the
husbands
remained
on
the
dry
and
comfortable
ship
.
The
steerage
people
knew
better
and
feared
more
.
Life
had
not
taught
them
,
as
it
had
taught
some
of
those
first-class
passengers
,
that
the
world
was
an
organization
specially
designed
for
their
comfort
and
security
;
they
had
not
come
to
believe
that
the
crude
and
ugly
and
elementary
catastrophes
of
fate
would
not
attack
them
.
On
the
contrary
,
most
of
them
knew
destiny
as
a
thing
to
fear
,
and
made
haste
to
flee
from
it
.
Many
of
them
,
moreover
,
had
been
sleeping
low
down
in
the
forward
part
of
the
ship
;
they
had
heard
strange
noises
,
had
seen
water
washing
about
where
no
water
should
be
,
and
they
were
frightened
.
There
was
,
however
,
no
discrimination
between
classes
in
putting
the
women
into
the
boats
.
The
woman
with
a
tattered
shawl
over
her
head
,
the
woman
with
a
sable
coat
over
her
nightdress
,
the
woman
clasping
a
baby
,
and
the
woman
clutching
a
packet
of
trinkets
had
all
an
equal
chance
;
side
by
side
they
were
handed
on
to
the
harsh
and
uncomfortable
thwarts
of
the
lifeboats
;
the
wife
of
the
millionaire
sat
cheek
by
jowl
with
a
dusty
stoker
and
a
Russian
emigrant
,
and
the
spoiled
woman
of
the
world
found
some
poor
foreigner
's
baby
thrown
into
her
lap
as
the
boat
was
lowered
.
