Should the captain of the crew of the Titanic known that the skip was in danger when they entered that fateful spot so many years ago? Many say, in hindsight, of course, that the ship should have slowed down and that the lookout should have been given proper equipment to spot dangerous icebergs.
Kipling Gave Poetic Warning Against Spot Where Titanic Sank
The spot where the Titanic sank has long been notorious among navigators and ocean travelers as one of the most dangerous in the Atlantic. So well known is this that Rudyard Kipling a few years ago memorialized it in a poem, “Forty North and Fifty West.”
When the cabin port holes are dark and green
Because of the seas outside;
When the ship goes wop with a wiggle between
And the trunks begin to slide;
When nursie lies on the floor in a heap
And mommy says to let her sleep
And you aren’t waked or washed or dressed,
Why, then you may know, if you haven’t guessed,
That you’re forty north and fifty west.
Oh, then you may know, if you haven’t guessed,
That you’re forty north and fifty west.
—Kipling.
The exact spot where the Titanic went down was 41:46 north and 50:14 west.
Source: (1912, April 23). Kipling Gave Poetic Warning Against Spot Where Titanic Sank. The Day Book.
