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Butera neverin constant contact with the men in the afterdeck cablehouse Suddenly, a voice from the speaker crackled over the howl of the outside wind "Captain?"

"This is the Captain," he replied into a hand phone

"Ensign Kelly in the cablehouse, sir So on back here"

"Would you care to explain, Ensign?"

"Well, sir, the cable see to port and now she's carried over to starboard at what I le"

"Okay, keep me posted" Butera switched off and opened another channel

"Uphill, can you hear me? This is Butera"

On the Morse Uphill answered almost immediately "Go ahead"

"I think the Titanic has sheered off to starboard"

"Can you make out her position?"

"Negative The only indication is the angle of the cable"

There came a silence of several moments as Uphill thrashed the new developh the speaker "We're hardlyfour knots as it is We have no alternative but to push on If we stop to see what she's up to, shebroadside into the sea and roll over"

"Can you pick her up on your radar?"

"No can do, a sea swept away our antennae twenty o How about yours?"

"Still have the antennae, but the same sea that took yours shorted, out my circuits"