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107 #6: Titanic: Regulations stated that there should be enough lifeboats for everyone on board

FALSE. Before the Titanic disaster, lifeboats for all were not required on passenger liners, in cases where these ships were

FALSE. The Olympic-class was the White Star Line’s answer to the revolution in shipbuilding brought by Cunard with the Mauretania

FALSE. But her younger sister, Britannic, may have been initially intended to have that name. Press speculation about a White

TRUE. As White Star Chairman and Titanic survivor Joseph Bruce Ismay confirmed at the British enquiry: 18755: ‘I think the

FALSE. The Mauretania and the Lusitania, built by Cunard in 1906, were both significantly faster than the Olympic and Titanic,

TRUE, but only just. Titanic was built to the same design as her slightly older twin sister, Olympic, launched about