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March 23, 2019 Titanic

107 #41: Titanic struck a blue or dark iceberg

FALSE. There was some discussion at the Inquiry about whether the iceberg which Titanic struck was a ‘blue’ or ‘dark’

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March 22, 2019 Titanic

107 #40: Titanic collided with a lone iceberg

TRUE. But there were dozens of icebergs, and a very large icefield in the immediate area in which Titanic sank.

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March 14, 2019 Titanic

107 #32: Titanic’s lookouts could smell the ice that night

TRUE. The reference in James Cameron’s 1997 film, Titanic, to lookout Reginald Lee’s claim that he could ‘smell ice’ stems

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March 26, 2014 Titanic

A Very Deceiving Night: “It was a dark mass that came through the haze”

Titanic’s lookouts described a haze around the horizon, despite the remarkable clarity of the night, and testified the iceberg appeared at the last moment

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