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CHAPTER III
THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF THE TITANIC
PREPARATIONS FOR THE VOYAGE—SCENES OF GAYETY—THE
BOAT SAILS—INCIDENTS OF THE VOYAGE—A COLLISION
NARROWLY AVERTED—THE BOAT ON FIRE—WARNED OF
ICEBERGS.
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USUAL DIVERSION
Until Sunday, April 14th, then, the voyage had apparently been a delightful but uneventful one. The passengers had passed the time in the usual diversions of ocean travelers, amusing themselves in the luxurious saloons, promenading on the boat deck, lolling at their ease in steamer chairs and making pools on the daily runs of the steamship. The smoking rooms and card rooms had been as well patronized as usual, and a party of several notorious professional gamblers had begun reaping their usual easy harvest.
As early as Sunday afternoon the officers of the Titanic must have known that they were approaching dangerous ice fields of the kind that are a perennial menace to the safety of steamships following the regular transatlantic lanes off the Great Banks of Newfoundland.
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CHAPTER III
THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF THE TITANIC
PREPARATIONS FOR THE VOYAGE—SCENES OF GAYETY—THE
BOAT SAILS—INCIDENTS OF THE VOYAGE—A COLLISION
NARROWLY AVERTED—THE BOAT ON FIRE—WARNED OF
ICEBERGS.
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