the miracle on Titanic page 14 by ric gustafson.
Wed April 10 1912 10:00 pm
As David and Charlene gazed up at a spectacular moonlight, Fourth Officer Boxhall was reworking the ship's route on a chart. He was worried about the route Mr Ismay wanted to take. The winter had been very warm and bergs and pack ice was worse this year than normal. His mind was troubled because there was still a coal fire blazing on the ship and they were going at full steam.
First Officer Murdoch walked onto the bridge. " Boxhall, did you get those binoculars?".
" Aye Sir". He handed the leathercase to the officer. " Why can't they have them up in the crow's nest?".
" They don't need them" he gruffly replied. " We can see with them in here probably better than they can".
Thursday April 11 11:15 am
David was looking over the railing at the beautiful Irish coastline. " So the devil had to ask permission before he could tempt Job".
" That's right" Charlene replied as she studied the bible verse. " God only allows as much as the person can handle".
A steward walked up and now stood next to them.
" Why are we anchoring at this point and not docked?".
" We are not docking in Queenstown because the ship is too large to berth".
David watched as a tug carrying new passengers pulled up alongside the ship and Officer Boxhall wrote their names down as they came onboard.
Later, Officer Murdoch found out that seven second class and one hundred and thirteen third class passengers had come on board.
research help: ' Murder on the Titanic' by Jim Walker.
Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric.
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