TRUE. Titanic’s boats had been inspected on 30th May, 1911, by William H. Chantler, a ship Surveyor in the Marine
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Month: April 2019
107 #66: Titanic’s passengers were reluctant to get into the lifeboats
TRUE. In an attempt to avoid a panic, passengers and crew had not been told of the full gravity of
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107 #65: Captain Smith had a mental breakdown following the collision, which rendered him ineffective
FALSE. Although Captain Smith suddenly found himself in an impossible and overwhelming situation, which must have been unbelievable to the
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107 #64: If the Californian had gone to help, everyone on the Titanic could have been saved
FALSE. Although Californian was only about 10 miles away, she would not have begun to move until after Titanic’s rockets
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107 #63: There was a ‘mystery ship’ between the Titanic and the Californian which could have saved everyone, but it sailed away without responding to Titanic’s distress signals
FALSE. Apologists for Captain Lord have tried to come up with the names of other ships in an attempt to
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107 #62: The Californian saw Titanic’s distress signals but ignored them
TRUE. The Californian had narrowly avoided running into the same icefield that Titanic would have collided with, had she not
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