Well, gentlemen one half of our great adventure is over. We have conceived and given birth to a mighty child. But as I see her at the quayside I realize, it is not just the ship that has backbone of steel, but the people who built her. Good luck to all of us, and God protect us.
Water… fourteen feet above the keel in ten minutes. In the forepeak, in all three holds and in the boiler room six.
