FALSE. Titanic’s doors closed relatively slowly and every watertight compartment had its own escape ladder, for use both to evacuate
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107 #52: If Titanic had rammed the iceberg head-on, she would have survived
TRUE. She probably would have done, as one of Titanic’s designer’s, Edward Wilding, explained in the following fascinating exchange at
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107 #51: If Titanic had had longitudinal bulkheads, these would have contained the water and stopped the ship from sinking
FALSE (probably). Cunard’s Mauretania and Lusitania were built with government subsidy on the understanding that they could be used as
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107 #49: The steel and rivets used to make Titanic were of inferior quality; if she’d been made with better metal, the iceberg wouldn’t have sunk her
FALSE. Titanic was made with the same quality of steel and rivets as the Olympic, which as we have seen
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107 #48: The iceberg ripped a 300-foot gash along the side of the ship
FALSE. This ‘fact’ was a popular one in the press of the time and is one of the more enduring
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107 #47: Passengers used chunks of the iceberg in their drinks after the collision
Possibly. It would have been possible to use pieces of the iceberg in drinks as the iceberg Titanic struck was
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