FALSE. The number of Irish passengers on the Titanic was in fact relatively low, although several films have given the
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107 #91: Operators on the Carpathia withheld information about Titanic’s sinking in order to sell their story to the papers
FALSE. Both Bride and Cottam, the Carpathia’s wireless operator, admitted that they did not provide information about the sinking to
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107 #89: Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon offered those in Lifeboat Number One £5 each if they would agree not to return to the ship to pick up survivors
FALSE. Although Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon did offer the crewmembers in his boat £5 each, it wasn’t a bribe to
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107 #88: Many more people would have been saved if more lifeboats had attempted to return to pick up survivors from the water
FALSE. By the time Titanic sank many of her lifeboats had been pulling slowly away from the ship for about
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107 #87: ‘Molly” Brown tried to make lifeboat number six go back to pick up survivors, but was prevented by Quartermaster Robert Hichens
TRUE. Margaret Brown’s own account, told to the New York Times on 20th April, 1912, makes no mention of her
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107 #86: Titanic Chief Baker Charles Joughin survived for several hours in the freezing water
TRUE, apparently. Titanic’s Chief Baker testified that he survived for several hours in the freezing water, but he wasn’t drunk,
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