FALSE. In fact, Titanic was only insured by third parties for two thirds of her build cost—the balance being carried
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Category: Titanic
107 #95: One of Titanic’s lifeboats was found drifting in the Atlantic a month after the sinking with the bodies of three victims still in it
TRUE. This was collapsible A, found by the Oceanic on 13th May, 1912, several hundred miles south-east of Titanic’s wreck
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107 #94: Bodies of first and second class Titanic passengers were taken to Halifax for burial but third class passengers were buried at sea
FALSE. The only bodies buried at sea were those which couldn’t be identified because they were recovered from the sea
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107 #93: A higher percentage of third class men died on Titanic than second class? More women were saved than men?
FALSE. Approximately twice as many Third Class men were saved than Second Class men, as a percentage of their classes.
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107 #92: A higher percentage of Irish people died on the Titanic than any other nationality
FALSE. The number of Irish passengers on the Titanic was in fact relatively low, although several films have given the
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107 #91: Operators on the Carpathia withheld information about Titanic’s sinking in order to sell their story to the papers
FALSE. Both Bride and Cottam, the Carpathia’s wireless operator, admitted that they did not provide information about the sinking to
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