Excerpt from The Coast Review, 1888, Vol. 23: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Fire, Marine, Life and Accident Insurance The collision of the Britannic and the Celtic was due to absolute disregard of the regula tions adopted by the company to which they both belonged, concerning the passages east ward and westward. As long ago as 1855, Lieutenant M. F. Maury, of the United States Navy, issued a paper advising the adoption of steam lanes across the Atlantic; and so lucid and rational were the reasons which he gave to induce the acceptance of thee steam lanes, so as to avoid any possibility of collisions be tween east-going and west-going vessels, that they were shortly afterward adopted by certain of the transatlantic lines, and have been in grafted in their regulations; but that these regulations are a dead letter is proven by such accidents as that which overtook the Oregon, the Britannia, and the Celtic. Of course, the general public is only informed of the depart ure from the written law by some such acci dent, and for one case where the disobedience is revealed by disaster, there are no doubt hundreds of cases where it passes unnoticed. Every man and woman that crosses the Atlan tic is liable to the same disaster that overtook the passengers in these three ships. There is a class of disasters in which the great commer cial cities find very little interest. They are disasters to fishermen; and in many a remote village on the New England coast fathers and brothers are mourned as lost who are known to have been victims of the criminal careless ness of the transatlantic liners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.