Titanic crewman: Vitriol about Pope could sink this ship

Previously unseen letters from a Catholic crewman who perished on the Titanic tell how he felt that the language used against the Pope by other crew was enough to “sink the ship”.

The letters were sent by engineer William Kelly, who died when the famous liner sank, to his mother and friend in Dublin in March and April 1912.

In the letters, he writes that the language used against the Pope by some of the crew on board was enough to “sink the ship”, while making a foreboding reference to its eventual sinking on Apr 15, 1912, in which 1,514 people of the 2,200 on board died.