FALSE. Binoculars are intended for inspecting objects which have first been picked up by the naked eye. Using them to
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107 #32: Titanic’s lookouts could smell the ice that night
TRUE. The reference in James Cameron’s 1997 film, Titanic, to lookout Reginald Lee’s claim that he could ‘smell ice’ stems
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107 #31: ‘Keep a lookout for small ice’ was a standing joke amongst Titanic’s lookouts
TRUE. It is interesting to note that earlier Lightoller had ordered that the Crow’s Nest be telephoned a second time
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107 #30: All eight members of the Goodwin family died in the Titanic sinking
TRUE. Frederick Goodwin was a 42-year-old electrical engineer living in a terraced house in Fulham, England, with his wife, Augusta,
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107 #29: Stewardess Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and her sister ship, the Britannic
TRUE. Violet Jessop was lucky throughout her life! Having survived tuberculosis as a child, she became a stewardess to help
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107 #28: There were professional ‘card-sharps’ travelling on Titanic as first class passengers
TRUE. Although the famous ‘Jay Yates’, who was allegedly travelling under the name of J.H. Rogers and was hailed as
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