Adheesh Sathaye mentioned today that the terrible sinking of the Titanic in 1912 was also the occasion of the loss of fourteen Sanskrit manuscripts of the Vikramacarita . The MSS were on their way from Bombay to Edgerton in the USA.Here is Edgerton's account, also kindly supplied by Adheesh.There's an uncomfortable ambiguity in Edgerton's prose, regarding the predicate of his expression "terrible disaster."