Serialization One Man and One Cork Fender
in The Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, IL, USA) (Jun 21, 1914): (Page imagery not yet available)
- 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)
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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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