Month: April 2019

FALSE. SOS was probably first used on 10th June 1909, about three years before the Titanic sank, by the Cunard

TRUE. In 1912 ships’ clocks were set at midnight to correspond to the longitude of where the ship was expected

FALSE. It is true that most of Titanic’s watertight doors were opened about an hour after the collision by the

FALSE. Titanic’s doors closed relatively slowly and every watertight compartment had its own escape ladder, for use both to evacuate

TRUE. She probably would have done, as one of Titanic’s designer’s, Edward Wilding, explained in the following fascinating exchange at

FALSE (probably). Cunard’s Mauretania and Lusitania were built with government subsidy on the understanding that they could be used as