One Man and One Cork Fender

in The Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, IL, USA)

First serialized as The Lesson of the Collision in The Illustrated London News (London, UK) (Jun 6, 1914)
Subsequently serialized as Cork Fender Forgotten: Novelist's Idea for Preventing Liner Disasters in The Globe (London, UK) (Jun 6, 1914)
Subsequently serialized as Protect the Ocean Liners: Could a fender have saved the "Empress of Ireland"? in The Daily Express (London, UK) (Jun 10, 1914)
Collected as Protection of Ocean Liners in Notes on Life and Letters (1921)

p.A3. Subtitled: "These, Says Joseph Conrad, Could Have Averted the Destruction of the Empress of Ireland and a Thousand Lives." Extract of 1327 words begins: "If we ask ourselves what it was that was needed to avert the Empress of Ireland disaster costing so many lives, spreading so much sorrow, and to a certain point shocking the Public conscience--if we ask that question, what is the answer..."

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