FALSE. The story of ‘Rigel the wonder dog’ is almost certainly— in nearly every sense of the phrase—a shaggy dog
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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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107 #88: Many more people would have been saved if more lifeboats had attempted to return to pick up survivors from the water
FALSE. By the time Titanic sank many of her lifeboats had been pulling slowly away from the ship for about
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107 #87: ‘Molly” Brown tried to make lifeboat number six go back to pick up survivors, but was prevented by Quartermaster Robert Hichens
TRUE. Margaret Brown’s own account, told to the New York Times on 20th April, 1912, makes no mention of her
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107 #86: Titanic Chief Baker Charles Joughin survived for several hours in the freezing water
TRUE, apparently. Titanic’s Chief Baker testified that he survived for several hours in the freezing water, but he wasn’t drunk,
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107 #85: The Carpathia averaged 17.5 knots during her 58-mile dash to reach the Titanic
FALSE. We have already seen that Titanic’s final SOS position 41° 44’ N, 50° 14’ W was about 13 miles
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