| At 11:55 a.m. on Friday, 11th of April, the Titanic reached Cork harbour in the south of Ireland. The following day's local newspaper, The Cork Examiner, described her arrival as follows: As one saw her esteeming slowly, a majestic monster floating it seemed irresistibly, into the harbour, a strange sense of night and power pervaded the scene. She and bodies in the latest triumphs in mercantile engineering and although assistantship of the Olympic is an improvement in many respects on the latter.
Whatever conditions the modern Voyager looks for in the vessel which he selects to bear him safely over the oceans that bosom he will find here with the acme of perfection. |
