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Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow, about the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, about the torpedoing of the British liner Athenia, are memorable accounts of nights to remember...
Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow, about the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, about the torpedoing of the British liner Athenia, are memorable accounts of nights to remember...
Collision Course, by Alvin Mosca, an account of the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, the story of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, skillfully raise ghost ships from the depths of forgetfulness...
...Stockholm's radar, the Doria was approaching on the left, and if she had held her course, she would have passed to the left, as required by rules of the road at sea. Doria's radar should have shown Stockholm to her left also; instead, it showed her to the right. When the gap between the two ships was closing too fast for comfort, each watch officer tried to widen the gap, but since they saw each other on different sides, their best efforts had the worst effect. Stockholm's bow smashed through Doria's side...
Author Moscow shows how the "unsinkable" Doria proved to have been as badly designed, for her day and in her way, as the Titanic. The number of lifeboats, ample in theory, proved woefully inadequate in practice, because half of them on the high (undamaged) side could not be launched. Undisciplined stewards and kitchen help swarmed into the first boats away and took them to the Stockholm, where they stayed idle. The rule "women and children first" gave way to "the strongest first." The wonder is that not more than 62 lives were lost...