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Everything
is
on
a
monstrous
scale
.
The
centre
anchor
,
which
it
took
a
team
of
sixteen
great
horses
to
drag
on
a
wooden
trolley
,
weighs
over
fifteen
tons
;
its
cable
will
hold
a
dead
weight
of
three
hundred
tons
.
The
very
rudder
,
that
mere
slender
and
almost
invisible
appendage
under
the
counter
,
is
eighty
feet
high
and
weighs
a
hundred
tons
.
The
men
on
the
look-out
do
not
climb
up
the
shrouds
and
ratlines
in
the
old
sea
fashion
;
the
mast
is
hollow
and
contains
a
stairway
;
there
is
a
door
in
it
from
which
they
come
out
to
take
their
place
in
the
crow
's
nest
.
Are
you
weary
of
such
statistics
?
They
were
among
the
things
on
which
men
thought
with
pride
on
those
sunny
April
days
in
the
Atlantic
.
Man
can
seldom
think
of
himself
apart
from
his
environment
,
and
the
house
and
place
in
which
he
lives
are
ever
a
preoccupation
with
all
men
.
From
the
clerk
in
his
little
jerry-built
villa
to
the
king
in
his
castle
,
what
the
house
is
,
what
it
is
built
of
,
how
it
is
equipped
and
adorned
,
are
matters
of
vital
interest
.
And
if
that
is
true
of
land
,
where
all
the
webs
of
life
are
connected
and
intercrossed
,
how
much
more
must
it
be
true
when
a
man
sets
his
house
afloat
upon
the
sea
;
detaches
it
from
all
other
houses
and
from
the
world
,
and
literally
commits
himself
to
it
.
This
was
the
greatest
sea
town
that
had
ever
been
built
;
these
were
the
first
inhabitants
of
it
;
theirs
were
the
first
lives
that
were
lived
in
these
lovely
rooms
;
this
was
one
of
the
greatest
companies
that
had
ever
been
afloat
together
within
the
walls
of
one
ship
.
No
wonder
they
were
proud
;
no
wonder
they
were
preoccupied
with
the
source
of
their
pride
.
But
things
stranger
still
to
the
life
of
the
sea
are
happening
in
some
of
the
hundreds
of
cells
which
our
giant
section-knife
has
laid
bare
.
An
orchestra
is
practising
in
one
of
them
;
in
another
,
some
one
is
catching
live
trout
from
a
pond
;
Post
Office
sorters
are
busy
in
another
with
letters
for
every
quarter
of
the
western
world
;
in
a
garage
,
mechanicians
are
cleaning
half
a
dozen
motor-cars
;
the
rippling
tones
of
a
piano
sound
from
a
drawing-room
where
people
are
quietly
reading
in
deep
velvet
armchairs
surrounded
by
books
and
hothouse
flowers
;
in
another
division
people
are
diving
and
swimming
in
a
great
bath
in
water
deep
enough
to
drown
a
tall
man
;
in
another
an
energetic
game
of
squash
racquets
is
in
progress
;
and
in
great
open
spaces
,
on
which
it
is
only
surprising
that
turf
is
not
laid
,
people
by
hundreds
are
sunning
themselves
and
breathing
the
fresh
air
,
utterly
unconscious
of
all
these
other
activities
on
which
we
have
been
looking
.
For
even
here
,
as
elsewhere
,
half
of
the
world
does
not
know
and
does
not
care
how
the
other
half
lives
.
All
this
magnitude
had
been
designed
and
adapted
for
the
realization
of
two
chief
ends
comfort
and
stability
.
We
have
perhaps
heard
enough
about
the
arrangements
for
comfort
;
but
the
more
vital
matter
had
received
no
less
anxious
attention
.
Practically
all
of
the
space
below
the
water-line
was
occupied
by
the
heaviest
things
in
the
ship
the
boilers
,
the
engines
,
the
coal
bunkers
and
the
cargo
.
And
the
arrangement
of
her
bulkheads
,
those
tough
steel
walls
that
divide
a
ship
's
hull
into
separate
compartments
,
was
such
that
her
designers
believed
that
no
possible
accident
short
of
an
explosion
in
her
boilers
could
sink
her
.
If
she
rammed
any
obstruction
head
on
,
her
bows
might
crumple
up
,
but
the
steel
walls
stretching
across
her
hull
and
there
were
fifteen
of
them
would
prevent
the
damage
spreading
far
enough
aft
to
sink
her
.
If
her
broadside
was
rammed
by
another
ship
,
and
one
or
even
two
of
these
compartments
pierced
,
even
then
the
rest
would
be
sufficient
to
hold
her
up
at
least
for
a
day
or
two
.
These
bulkheads
were
constructed
of
heavy
sheet
steel
,
and
extended
from
the
very
bottom
of
the
ship
to
a
point
well
above
the
water-line
.
Necessarily
there
were
openings
in
them
in
order
to
make
possible
communication
between
the
different
parts
of
the
ship
.
These
openings
were
the
size
of
an
ordinary
doorway
and
fitted
with
heavy
steel
doors
not
hinged
doors
,
but
panels
,
sliding
closely
in
water-tight
grooves
on
either
side
of
the
opening
.
There
were
several
ways
of
closing
them
;
but
once
closed
they
offered
a
resistance
as
solid
as
that
of
the
bulkheads
.
The
method
of
opening
and
closing
them
was
one
of
the
many
marvels
of
modern
engineering
.
The
heavy
steel
doors
were
held
up
above
the
openings
by
a
series
of
friction
clutches
.
Up
on
the
bridge
were
switches
connected
with
powerful
electro-magnets
at
the
side
of
the
bulkhead
openings
.
The
operation
of
the
switches
caused
each
magnet
to
draw
down
a
heavy
weight
which
instantly
released
the
friction
clutches
,
so
that
the
doors
would
slide
down
in
a
second
or
two
into
their
places
,
a
gong
ringing
at
the
same
time
to
warn
anyone
who
might
be
passing
through
to
get
out
of
the
way
.
The
clutches
could
also
be
released
by
hand
.
But
if
for
any
reason
the
electric
machinery
should
fail
,
there
was
a
provision
made
for
closing
them
automatically
in
case
the
ship
should
be
flooded
with
water
.
Down
in
the
double
bottom
of
the
ship
were
arranged
a
series
of
floats
connected
with
each
set
of
bulkhead
doors
.
In
the
event
of
water
reaching
the
compartment
below
the
doors
,
it
would
raise
the
floats
,
which
,
in
their
turn
,
would
release
the
clutches
and
drop
the
doors
.
These
great
bulkheads
were
no
new
experiment
;
they
had
been
tried
and
proved
.
When
the
White
Star
liner
Suevic
was
wrecked
a
few
years
ago
off
the
Lizard
,
it
was
decided
to
divide
the
part
of
her
which
was
floating
from
the
part
which
was
embedded
in
the
rocks
;
and
she
was
cut
in
two
just
forward
of
the
main
collision
bulkhead
,
and
the
larger
half
of
her
towed
into
port
with
no
other
protection
from
the
sea
than
this
vast
steel
wall
which
,
nevertheless
,
easily
kept
her
afloat
.
And
numberless
other
ships
have
owed
their
lives
to
the
resisting
power
of
these
steel
bulkheads
and
the
quick
operation
of
the
sliding
doors
.
As
for
the
enormous
weight
that
made
for
the
Titanic
's
stability
,
it
was
,
as
I
have
said
,
contained
chiefly
in
the
boilers
,
machinery
and
coal
.
The
coal
bunkers
were
like
a
lining
running
round
the
boilers
,
not
only
at
the
sides
of
the
ship
,
but
also
across
her
whole
breadth
,
thus
increasing
the
solidity
of
the
steel
bulkheads
;
and
when
it
is
remembered
that
her
steam
was
supplied
by
twenty-nine
boilers
,
each
of
them
the
size
of
a
large
room
,
and
fired
by
a
hundred
and
fifty-nine
furnaces
,
the
enormous
weight
of
this
part
of
the
ship
may
be
dimly
realized
.
