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cask to the engine-room in the depths below you 
give the signal, “ Full speed ahead,” and swiftly the 
Southern Cross would wind her way through 
the icy water towards the ice-block. With a crash 
her steel-covered bows ram into the barrier. Great 
green blocks of ice rear on end, overturn and plunge 
FROM THE CROW’S NEST. 
against her fortified sides, while the entire crew | 
watch the magnificent spectacle from the forecastle. 
The ship shivers, and the shock is felt tremendously 
in the crow’s nest. But often this ramming has to be 
repeated several times before the vessel again runs 
into an open channel by which she can proceed on 
her way. The shape of the Southern Cross, her 
weight, her magnificent engines, all helped her 
