Which, by
a sort of coy implication, seems to mean that it was all the fault of the
officer of the watch (he is dead now) for trying to avoid the obstacle.
We shall have presently, in deference to commercial and industrial
interests, a new kind of seamanship. A very new and "progressive" kind.
If you see anything in the way, by no means try to avoid it; smash at it
full tilt. And then--and then only you shall see the triumph of
material, of clever contrivances, of the whole box of engineering tricks
in fact, and cover with glory a commercial concern of the most
unmitigated sort, a great Trust, and a great ship-building yard, justly
famed for the super-excellence of its material and workmanship.
Unsinkable! See? I told you she was unsinkable, if only handled in
accordance with the new seamanship. Everything's in that. And,
doubtless, the Board of Trade, if properly approached, would consent to
give the needed instructions to its examiners of Masters and Mates.
Behold the examination-room of the future. Enter to the grizzled
examiner a young man of modest aspect: "Are you well up in modern
seamanship?" "I hope so, sir.
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