The water flows that penetrated inside the ship, without encountering any obstacles on the living deck, gradually filled more and more new rooms. The signal for rescue sounded on the battleship. Boats and boats began to be lowered. Now the moment of reckoning has come for the criminal attitude in the Navy Ministry towards the issues of unsinkability, which were repeatedly raised by S.O. Makarov in that distant and serene time when Navarin came into operation. But hardly anyone in this terrible turmoil could remember and know about it.