PROBABLY TRUE. The night before Titanic’s collision, her wireless operators, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, had spent six hours repairing
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107 #22: Captain Smith should have slowed down for ice
TRUE. But in clear weather, and only if he had actually seen ice in his path and determined that it
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107 #21: Titanic was trying to take the shortest route to New York at the time of the accident
FALSE. She was, in fact, on the longer route to New York, known as the southern track, which was agreed
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107 #20: Owner Ismay acted as a ‘Super-Captain’ and ordered Captain Smith to maintain full speed despite the unusual ice warnings they had received
FALSE. We have seen that Ismay did urge Captain Smith to get into New York early; and we know that
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107 #19: Titanic was short of coal because of a coal strike
FALSE. Although Ismay mentioned this to defend himself against charges of speeding and there was a shortage of coal at
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107 #18: Titanic was trying to win the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing
FALSE. As we have seen, Titanic could never have achieved this. She was not the fastest liner, nor was she
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