Sinking of the R.S Leftbridge

The R.S Leftbridge was a Toranzian ship that was SENT THROUGH SPACE to reach Oughagater, and the first steel ship to sink on the planet.

## Background

The R.S Leftbridge was a humble sized Toranzian Ocean Liner that was sent THROUGH SPACE to reach the planet of Oughagater. After landing, it received planet wide attention, ferrying passengers for about a month and a bit.

It was a well respected vessel but wasn't anything too extraordinary.

## Calm Before the Storm

This is meant quite literally, as there was a storm as the ship sunk. The ship is steaming at 18 Knots towards Menkhanz in the Rayillager Republic, conditions have so far been moderate, no storm yet no flat calm either.

The ship has docked at

This all changes within a matter of hours, when at 12:25, an enormous winter storm descends over the Orantimber Sea, sending spray of water all up over the deck and covering passengers in the icy sea water from below. The ship is being rocked side to side: One passenger reporting it went to a full 45 Degree Angle when hit by an especially large wave. Furnishings not firmly tied down or secured to their places slide around the deck, sending things like crockery, cutlery and PEOPLE to the floor.

Dinner that night is served with the most basic foods, crew fearing seasick passengers with full stomachs will flood the decks with vomit. After dinner, some passengers start to feel sick for another reason that ISN'T overeating, raw food. Earlier that day, in preparation for dinner, the captain ordered the Galley to use 75% LESS coal for this reason:

While the storm raged, the winds and waves pushed AGAINST the ship, meaning they were barely advancing. Extra coal had to be used in the boiler rooms because of this so the ship could go faster and make regular speed against the wind, this meant they had to limit the amount of coal that could be used, leading to food poisoning.

## Sinking

### "BREAKERS YARD, AHEAD!"

At about 22:15 on the 18th January 2023, Captain Arnold J. Smite was told by 2nd Officer Michael Gallern that he could report to his cabin to sleep. As he took over the bridge for the night, lookout John Smith reports to the crows nest, as the 2nd lookout was sick and the other two were off duty for the night.

Before going to sleep, the captain says that if they see the lights of Menkhanz, that they should wake him up and tell him of their location so they could carefully manoeuvre into the harbour.

At 22:32, the lookout shouts, from the short distance of the crows nest to the bridge, the words "BREAKERS YARD DEAD AHEAD!", wrongly mistaking the rocks and lights in the distance for the Menkhanz Breakers Yard, in reality they are almost 13 Miles EAST of the intended location.

2nd Officer Gallern shouts "HARD TO STARBOARD!", as the ship attempts to make a drastic turn to the Starboard. In the short amount of time they have, Gallern puts this together in his head:

If they spin around and avoid these rocks, they will slam into even LARGER wall of rocks that will be unavoidable if they spin around the smaller rocks, but by this time he's already given the order and knows there's nothing he could have done or CAN do.

Speeding at 22 Knots (Due to increased coal consumption), the ship slams bow first into the nearby Titan Rock, turning onto it's starboard side due to the collision. It scraped directly along the side, instantly flooding compartment 1, 2, 3 and 4, a fatal collision for this ship. Directly after this, the wind direction CHANGES and starts to make the shift DRIFT AWAY from the shore and flood faster as water is pushed IN by the wind.

The ship is now rapidly being pulled down by the bow after only minutes.

### Evacuation

There is no time of calm here like on some other sinking ships, the engines have now begun to flood and the GENERATOR is struggling to keep itself on as the chief engineer Jack Gates risks electrocution while he stands in the freezing water, turning the generator fan manually to keep it running.

Lifeboat 1 is successfully launched but almost instantly capsizes in the water, but the crew do not try to act as they know the boat should still be full of air and can drift onto dry land. Shortly after this, the ship almost completely capsized by flipping onto it's side, almost causing the crew to drop the emergency flares into the sea below.

The captain then tries to manoeuvre the ship onto dry land by just a bit to lift the gash in the keel up onto the rocks, hopefully stopping the flooding. Now the crew and passengers are