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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107 #8: The Titanic disaster was predicted 14 years before it happened by writer Morgan Robertson
TRUE. In his 1898 novella entitled Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, Robertson told the story of a ‘superliner’
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107 #7: Titanic’s owners opposed the addition of more lifeboats, in order to give passengers more room on the promenade decks
TRUE. The White Star Line knew that the Board of Trade was about to change the regulations, and they thought
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