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107 #4: Titanic was originally to have been named Gigantic

FALSE. But her younger sister, Britannic, may have been initially intended to have that name. Press speculation about a White

TRUE. As White Star Chairman and Titanic survivor Joseph Bruce Ismay confirmed at the British enquiry: 18755: ‘I think the

FALSE. The Mauretania and the Lusitania, built by Cunard in 1906, were both significantly faster than the Olympic and Titanic,

TRUE, but only just. Titanic was built to the same design as her slightly older twin sister, Olympic, launched about

To commemorate 107 years since the sinking of the Titanic, and to help you separate the myths from the reality

Thermal map Titanic sinking. For six years from 2006 to 2012 I travelled the world looking for ships which passed