African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1116 Titanic

In short, small farmers lack start-up capital, and the larger the investment, the greater the risk. Ordinary people simply cannot afford such risks, so early East African agriculture could only concentrate them and implement large-scale farms similar to those in Europe and the United States.

Of course, the quality of life of farmers under East African governance can only be described as mediocre. Against the background of accelerated urbanization, in order to supply labor to cities, even if there are better conditions for living in rural areas, East African governments will try their best to compress these conditions and differentiate urban and rural life.

For a country that has not completed industrialization, if the population does not move to cities, the industrialization process of this country will inevitably become more difficult. France is a typical example. It not only affects the population growth rate, but also leads to a relative shortage of labor in the country's cities, thus losing competitiveness with German industry.

Of course, France faces many problems, such as the substantial increase in industrial development costs due to the cession of Lorraine and other regions to Germany and the loss of its own cheap iron ore supply.

Therefore, industrialization is a rather complex process of social change, and adjustments need to be made in many areas to adapt to industrialization. It took East Africa a long time to explore this path before gradually forming the current situation.

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Atlantic.

The North Atlantic is an area that is rarely visited by East African ships. On the extremely prosperous North Atlantic route, shipping companies from the United States and Britain almost monopolize most of the business.

Moreover, East Africa itself has limited shipping capacity and focuses on shipping and trade between East Africa and Europe, the Far East and South America. This means that the North Atlantic has never been the focus of East African shipping.

Before that, the East African Navy did not often operate in the North Atlantic. The main reason was that the East African Navy was too weak at the time. However, with the development of the East African Navy, it is impossible for East Africa to always focus on the Indian Ocean.

At this time, an East African warship was sailing on the North Atlantic route. The main task of the cruiser "Luanda" was not only to accumulate experience in ocean sailing, but also to investigate the hydrological conditions of the North Atlantic and provide the East African Navy with North Atlantic hydrological data and intelligence.

By now, it is late at night and most of the crew members on the Luanda have fallen asleep. Of course, as a warship, the duty procedure is still relatively strict.

Just like the information reception room of the Luanda at this moment, the lights are still on, and the radio operator Antonio and his colleagues are on duty strictly in accordance with the regulations.

"Beep...beep...beep..."

The warning light suddenly sounded, breaking the silence in the information reception room. Antonio was not surprised by this. He started operating the radio to see what information this unknown telecommunications signal expressed and conveyed.

As the telecommunications signal in the headset gradually became clearer, Antonio's expression became serious. This is the universal distress signal sent by international ships in distress.

"Karl, did you hear the distress signal over there?"

Carl is Antonio's colleague, and the two of them sit relatively close to each other, so the first person Antonio asked was Carl.

"It should be a distress signal sent to us by a civilian ship. The signal source shows that it is only about twenty nautical miles away from us." Carl replied.

After confirming the accuracy of the news, Antonio did not dare to neglect it. He said, "Let's report the situation to our superiors first. You continue to be on duty, and I will go and make the report."

Antonio went to the telephone room and reported the news directly to the Luanda's command room.

"A ship sent a distress signal southwest of our ship. The distance may be about 20 nautical miles..."

After receiving the news, Captain Garland of the Luanda thought for only a moment before issuing orders: "Turn around and head towards the unidentified ship. Enter combat readiness and make every effort to observe the situation in the surrounding waters."

Since there were ships in distress at sea, it meant that there might be unknown risks in the surrounding waters, so Garland was still quite vigilant. As a new type of cruiser that had just been put into service, the Luanda was quite fast. In less than fifty minutes, the Luanda arrived at a location close to the accident site.

"A lifeboat was spotted at the ten o'clock position in front of the right side!" exclaimed the sharp-eyed sailor.

Soon, the Luanda rescued the people on the lifeboat. The lifeboat was packed with people, and their faces were filled with fear.

"Who are you?" Garland asked the group of victims at sea.

When they saw that it was a warship that rescued them, the people finally felt relieved. One man said, "General, I am a sailor from the Titanic. Our ship collided with an iceberg and has begun to sink. Many people have not been rescued. Please help those poor people!"

Garland looked carefully at the clothes of this group of people and knew at a glance that they were either rich or noble. On the contrary, the sailor who reported to him was wearing his own uniform and should be the operator of the lifeboat.

"Titanic!" Garland muttered to himself, and suddenly it dawned on him, isn't this the cruise ship that has been so hyped recently?

After learning that the wrecked ship was the Titanic, Garland's mouth twitched a little when he thought of the previous slogan of the Titanic.

Because Europe had previously advertised that the Titanic was "unsinkable", but it encountered a shipwreck on its first voyage and sank to the bottom of the dark Atlantic Ocean.

"Where did your ship sink?" Garland continued to ask.

No one answered this question, because they had been drifting on the sea for a long time and had become dizzy and had difficulty identifying the direction. There was no other way but for the Luanda to complete the next rescue mission on its own.

Ten minutes later, based on the oral reports of other lifeboats, the cruiser Luanda finally arrived at the scene of the accident. It was already past one o'clock in the morning.

The Titanic collided with the iceberg at 11 o'clock last night, and two hours have passed now.

The Titanic had not yet completely sunk, a large part of it was exposed above the water, and the stern was already under the water.

The arrival of the Luanda undoubtedly gave everyone hope. At this time, there were still many people on the ship who were unable to evacuate, and they gathered at the bow.

After seeing the warship Luanda, the people who were already in despair seemed to have grasped the last straw. They waved towards Luanda frantically and called for help.

The cruiser Luanda also responded quickly and began to send lifeboats towards the Titanic.

The Titanic could sink at any time, so the sailors of the cruiser Luanda had to complete the rescue mission in a very short time.

Under the orderly command of the commander, the experienced East African sailors transferred the personnel on the Titanic to the Luanda in an orderly manner.

At 1:54, all the remaining people on the Titanic were finally rescued. At this time, the Titanic had tilted too far and the Luanda did not dare to get too close to avoid being affected by the Titanic.

The Luanda had a displacement of only more than 3,000 tons, while the Titanic, a behemoth, had a displacement of more than 40,000 tons. The Luanda looked like a tiny dot in front of the Titanic. If the Titanic sank, the vortex it brought might pose a threat to the Luanda.

This also caused the deck of the cruiser Luanda to be overcrowded for a while. Originally, there were only more than 600 East African officers and soldiers on the Luanda, but the number of people rescued by the Luanda alone was as high as more than 1,000, which was far beyond the limit of the Luanda.

(End of this chapter)