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The well deck forward was littered with ice knocked or scooped from the iceberg. But from the point of view of most of the passengers, contact between the ship and the ice was so slight as to be negligible. "I wound my watch—it was 11:45 P.M.," one of them recalled, "—and was just about to step into bed, when I seemed to sway slightly. I realized that the ship had veered to port as though she had been gently pushed. If I had had a brimful glass of water in my hand not a drop would have been spilled, the shock was so slight." But, almost as if she had been gutted by a fishhook, the huge starboard hull of the ship was already opened lengthwise. In moments, watertight bulkheads were transformed from bastions of protection against the sea to deadly containers weighted with tons of salt water. —from The Sway of the Grand Saloon, on the Titanic
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reviewed Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic on September 25, 2017 Sway of the Grand Saloon
A magisterial history of the liner trade, from its dawn in the 19th century to a haunting account of the "Queen Mary" and the "Queen Elizabeth" passing one another for the last time in the 1960s. Written by a professor of English and an accomplished poet, "The Sway of the Grand Saloon" is not just fine history but a study in the art of writing it.
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