Possibly. It would have been possible to use pieces of the iceberg in drinks as the iceberg Titanic struck was
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107 #46: Some third class passengers woke up to find their cabins awash
TRUE. This did happen in the case of single male steerage passengers, berthed in the forward part of Titanic on
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107 #45: Everyone on Titanic felt a terrific jolt as she collided with the iceberg
FALSE. As we have seen, the extreme obliqueness of the blow, and the long distance along the hull over which
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107 #44: The iceberg which sank the Titanic was identified the day after by a smear of red paint along its side
TRUE (possibly). The Prinz Adalbert, a German steamer, passed near the position of Titanic’s sinking on April 15th and one
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107 #43: The lookouts had reported seeing icebergs before the collision
TRUE (possibly). We know from the water temperature that Titanic was in the ice region from 8 p.m. and that
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107 #42: If Titanic had carried searchlights, the lookouts would have seen the ice earlier.
TRUE (possibly!). In theory, searchlights would have alerted the lookouts to the fact that Titanic was at that time steaming
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