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May 16, 2019 Titanic

107 #95: One of Titanic’s lifeboats was found drifting in the Atlantic a month after the sinking with the bodies of three victims still in it

TRUE. This was collapsible A, found by the Oceanic on 13th May, 1912, several hundred miles south-east of Titanic’s wreck

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May 15, 2019 Titanic

107 #94: Bodies of first and second class Titanic passengers were taken to Halifax for burial but third class passengers were buried at sea

FALSE. The only bodies buried at sea were those which couldn’t be identified because they were recovered from the sea

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May 14, 2019 Titanic

107 #93: A higher percentage of third class men died on Titanic than second class? More women were saved than men?

FALSE. Approximately twice as many Third Class men were saved than Second Class men, as a percentage of their classes.

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May 13, 2019 Titanic

107 #92: A higher percentage of Irish people died on the Titanic than any other nationality

FALSE. The number of Irish passengers on the Titanic was in fact relatively low, although several films have given the

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May 12, 2019 Titanic

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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May 10, 2019 Titanic

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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