FALSE. There is no evidence that any mummy was ever put on board the Titanic. The mummy tale, in a
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Month: February 2019
107 #11: Titanic’s construction, launch and sailing were plagued by bad luck
FALSE. Although it is easy to see how this rumour developed, with the benefit of hindsight. Working in a shipyard
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107 #10: A worker was accidentally sealed into Titanic’s hull when she was under construction in Belfast
FALSE. Although stories of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s ship, the Great Eastern, suggest that this myth may have originated there, where
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107 #9: Catholic workers at Harland and Wolff sabotaged Titanic because her hull number was anti-Catholic
FALSE. This myth is based on the mistaken belief that Titanic’s hull number was 3909 04 which, if seen reflected,
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107 #8: The Titanic disaster was predicted 14 years before it happened by writer Morgan Robertson
TRUE. In his 1898 novella entitled Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, Robertson told the story of a ‘superliner’
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107 #7: Titanic’s owners opposed the addition of more lifeboats, in order to give passengers more room on the promenade decks
TRUE. The White Star Line knew that the Board of Trade was about to change the regulations, and they thought
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