Friday, March 29

New Photos from the Titanic: It Wasn’t the Iceberg??

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Just when we thought we knew everything about the Titanic, an Irish journalist found old photos, taken by the chief engineer of the Belfast shipyard that built the unsinkable ship, showing the extensive damage caused by a coal fire that started three weeks before the Titanic left the dock in Southampton in 1912. The photos had been stored in an attic in Southwest England. The journalist uncovered them while doing research on a documentary. They clearly show the extent of the fire in a three-story coal bunker, next to one of the ship’s boiler rooms, that damaged the hull and bulkheads. Yes, the ship certainly did hit an iceberg, but now the question is how much did the fire cause the weakened hull to open so dramatically, and fatally. Read about it here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/world/europe/titanic-coal-fire-iceberg.html?_r=0

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