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thousands of seamen and officers of the 

 merchant service should bring in a Bill 

 to this effect. It would not pass at first, 

 but even in its initial failure it would 

 do good, pointing" the way of salvation 

 to those interested. Meanwhile, let us 

 not ignore the progress that has been 

 made because of the loss of the 

 " Titanic." 



Some good comes out of every great 

 calamity, and some good has come out 

 of this. We have abandoned as a fal- 

 lacy the theory of the unsinkable ship. 

 The preaching of many marine archi- 

 tects in favour of the double hull would 

 not in a dozen years have carried the 

 conviction at once brought home to ship- 

 builders when the full story of the 



wreck became known. The agitation of 

 legislative " reformers " all over the 

 world would not have forced owners to 

 increase their equipment of life- 

 boats and life-rafts so prompt ly 

 as they themselves increased it 

 without compulsion when need for 

 the increase was tragically demon- 

 strated. Marconi himself could not 

 have argued so forcefully for the per- 

 fection of wireless service at sea as did 

 the want of a perfected system on ships 

 that answered the "Titanic's" call for 

 help. If the catastrophe of April 14, 

 191 2, is recalled with grief for those 

 who perished bravely and uncomplain- 

 ingly, it will be remembered also that 

 the dead died not in vain. 



'TWEEN DECKS ON THE " OLYMPIC." 

 The photograph shows on the right the inner skin added to secure the safety of the vessel 



