He told the New York Times: ‘The ship was an unsinkable ship. I say it, I repeat it.’ But the mast weighed an estimated 24 tonnes, which could have challenged the boat’s stability.
The supposedly unsinkable ship then hit an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage, with the loss of 1,500 lives. Mesaba herself was sunk, by a torpedo in World War I in 1918. Lost lives of the ...