TRUE. Although the famous ‘Jay Yates’, who was allegedly travelling under the name of J.H. Rogers and was hailed as
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107 #27: Two kidnapped children survived the sinking of the Titanic
TRUE. The Navratil brothers, Michel Marcel aged three and Edmond Roger aged two, had been taken by their father in
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107 #26: Alice Cleaver, nursemaid to a family in first class, had previously been convicted of killing her own child
FALSE. However, due to an unfortunate coincidence of names, this story has persisted, probably partly because of its connection with
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107 #25: ‘Molly’ Brown was treated with condescension by other first class passengers because she was ‘new money’
FALSE. James Cameron’s 1997 film gave the impression that the majority of First Class passengers were boring and narrow-minded snobs
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107 #24: Captain Smith was drunk at the time of the collision
FALSE. Although it is true that Captain Smith had attended a dinner party earlier that evening held in his honour
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107 #23: Crucial ice warnings never made it to Titanic’s bridge because the wireless operator was too busy and tired
PROBABLY TRUE. The night before Titanic’s collision, her wireless operators, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, had spent six hours repairing
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