The key was only good if the ship had survived.
If his ship had survived, it must be on the table by now.
Against so many odds, the ship had survived, and he was alive, too.
What happened here, in a matter of minutes, would determine whether or not the ship survived.
Until this moment, she hadn't been entirely sure his ship had survived the storm.
It never once occurred to her that the ship, or she, might not survive.
And if it was lost in engineering, the ship would not survive long.
The ship survived the war and was sold into private ownership in 1947.
In the end, 67 ships and less than 10,000 men survived.
But he would have to deal with them- and all the attendant problems, if the ship survived the next day.