The entire passage had been made at high speed, though not at the ship's
maximum, and this speed was never reduced until the collision was
unavoidable. At 10 p. m. the ship was registering 45 knots every two
hours by the Cherub log.
The quartermaster on watch aft when the _Titanic_ struck states that the
log, reset at noon, then registered 260 knots, and the fourth officer,
when working up the position from 7.30 p. m. to the time of the
collision, states he estimated the _Titanic's_ speed as 22 knots, and
this is also borne out by evidence that the engines were running
continuously at 75 revolutions.