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FALSE. The passenger steamer Mount Temple and the Marconi shore station at Cape Race were the first to receive Titanic’s

TRUE. At about 7.30 p.m., Lightoller took a set of star sights in order to calculate Titanic’s position. Third officer

FALSE. SOS was probably first used on 10th June 1909, about three years before the Titanic sank, by the Cunard

TRUE. In 1912 ships’ clocks were set at midnight to correspond to the longitude of where the ship was expected

FALSE. It is true that most of Titanic’s watertight doors were opened about an hour after the collision by the

FALSE. Titanic’s doors closed relatively slowly and every watertight compartment had its own escape ladder, for use both to evacuate