iceberg Archives < Tim Maltin

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’

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.

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

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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