TRUE. But only in this new class of liner. Captain Smith had not become one of the most successful and
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107 #16: Titanic nearly collided with another ship as she left Southampton
TRUE. This incident is brilliantly described in the following passage from Titanic and other Ships, the memoirs of Titanic’s Second
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107 #15: Titanic was carrying gold bullion
FALSE. This is a myth in the case of the Titanic, although in 1917 the White Star liner Laurentic was
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107 #14: Titanic was on fire when she left Southampton
TRUE. The fire may have started as early as Tuesday 2nd April, when the Titanic was still in Belfast, in
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107 #12: Titanic was sunk by a mummy’s curse
FALSE. There is no evidence that any mummy was ever put on board the Titanic. The mummy tale, in a
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107 #10: A worker was accidentally sealed into Titanic’s hull when she was under construction in Belfast
FALSE. Although stories of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s ship, the Great Eastern, suggest that this myth may have originated there, where
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