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AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM TITANIC SURVIVOR F.M. HOYT
dated 17 July 1912, Hoyt, a long-term aquaintance of Capt. Smith's speculated on the reasons for the disaster ..Why they did not see the ice I cannot tell you... I have known Captain Smith well for the past sixteen years... he never took unnecessary chances... The only explanation for their not seeing the ice that I can imagine, is this -- the sea was absolutely calm, not a ripple in the water, a brilliant star light in which you could see the reflection of every star; and I think the stars reflected from the ice just as they did from the sea and that the lookouts and bridge officers did not see the damn thing until they were right on top of it... going on to refute the reports of shootings, written over two sides of headed paper and signed 'FWH'6½ x 10½in. (16.5 x 27cm.)
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dated 17 July 1912, Hoyt, a long-term aquaintance of Capt. Smith's speculated on the reasons for the disaster ..Why they did not see the ice I cannot tell you... I have known Captain Smith well for the past sixteen years... he never took unnecessary chances... The only explanation for their not seeing the ice that I can imagine, is this -- the sea was absolutely calm, not a ripple in the water, a brilliant star light in which you could see the reflection of every star; and I think the stars reflected from the ice just as they did from the sea and that the lookouts and bridge officers did not see the damn thing until they were right on top of it... going on to refute the reports of shootings, written over two sides of headed paper and signed 'FWH'6½ x 10½in. (16.5 x 27cm.)
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