TRUE. Titanic carried a permanent, but slight, list to port on her maiden voyage, caused by the loading of the
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107 #69: One man escaped by pretending to be a woman in order to get into a lifeboat
TRUE. It is possible that more than one man might have done so. Fifth Officer Lowe said that he had
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107 #68: Titanic’s second officer prevented men and even boys from entering lifeboats even though there was space for them
TRUE. Almost certainly because of his views about loading the lifeboats from the water, explained above. Lightoller tried to prevent
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107 #67: Titanic’s officers thought her lifeboats might break if they were lowered fully loaded
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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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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