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January 10, 2021 Uncategorized

Mirage text from 1820 sheds new light on Titanic disaster

Mirage text from 1820 sheds new light on Titanic disaster In 1820, polar explorer and scientist William Scoresby published “An

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May 11, 2019 Uncategorized

107 #90: The barking of a Newfoundland dog alerted Carpathia to Titanic’s lifeboats

FALSE. The story of ‘Rigel the wonder dog’ is almost certainly— in nearly every sense of the phrase—a shaggy dog

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April 24, 2019 Uncategorized

107 #73: If Titanic had had more lifeboats, everybody could have been saved

FALSE. Titanic already carried enough lifeboats for all of the 534 women and children on board and more than an

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April 1, 2019 Uncategorized

107 #50: If the bulkheads of Titanic’s watertight compartments had been higher, she wouldn’t have sunk

FALSE. Six of her forward watertight compartments were flooded, all the way back to her No. 4 boiler room; with

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