FALSE. Six of her forward watertight compartments were flooded, all the way back to her No. 4 boiler room; with
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107 #49: The steel and rivets used to make Titanic were of inferior quality; if she’d been made with better metal, the iceberg wouldn’t have sunk her
FALSE. Titanic was made with the same quality of steel and rivets as the Olympic, which as we have seen
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107 #48: The iceberg ripped a 300-foot gash along the side of the ship
FALSE. This ‘fact’ was a popular one in the press of the time and is one of the more enduring
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107 #47: Passengers used chunks of the iceberg in their drinks after the collision
Possibly. It would have been possible to use pieces of the iceberg in drinks as the iceberg Titanic struck was
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107 #46: Some third class passengers woke up to find their cabins awash
TRUE. This did happen in the case of single male steerage passengers, berthed in the forward part of Titanic on
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107 #45: Everyone on Titanic felt a terrific jolt as she collided with the iceberg
FALSE. As we have seen, the extreme obliqueness of the blow, and the long distance along the hull over which
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