Posted on 01/01/2017 7:31:23 AM PST by Buttons12
The sinking of the largest ship ever built, the Titanic, may owe as much to a enormous fire onboard as it did to a gigantic iceberg, it has been claimed...
...fresh evidence that the Titanic’s hull may have been crippled by a massive blaze that burned unchecked for almost three weeks immediately behind the spot where it was later pierced.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Anybody else finding this hilarious?
Oh. Right. The Fake News Media.
For a minute I thought they were trying to say a fire burning on board caused it to take 3 weeks to sink. LOL
Another liberal attempt to rewrite history...
Russian involvement confirmed.
I am not a sailor but it does sound improbable that a big ship with a big crew could have a big fire onboard for three whole weeks without anyone noticing it’
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Read an article years ago that the fire was deep in a coal bunker against the hull. Some evidence that the steel in the hull had too much carbon in it and combined with the heat of the fire made the hull in that area very brittle. Given quality controls for steel production were not exactly what they are now, entirely plausible scenario.
J. Dilley, a fireman on the Titanic (survivor) - “From the day we sailed, the Titanic was on fire. My sole duty, along with 11 other men, had been to fight the fire. The fire started in bunker number 6. The coal on the top was wet as all of it should have been, but the bottom had been permitted to get dry”.
“The dry coal at the bottom took fire and smoldered for days. The wet coal at the top kept the flames from coming through.”
“No, sir, we didn’t get that fire out. It was right under bunker number 6 that the iceberg tore the biggest hole in the Titanic”.
From “Sinking of the Titanic”, Official Edition, 1912, Russell
A coal bunker fire was common during the period. The packed in coal would smolder and there was little the crew could do to put them out, since the smolder was inside the giant pile. Ships usually had an automatic sprinkling system to dampen the coal pile if it got dangerously hot. Passenger Ships were in virtually no danger from them. I assume the Titanic had such a sprinkler system.
UFOs sank the Titanic. Everybody knows it.
I highly doubt any sea captain would put to sea with a massive fire on board.
Probably BS and conjecture by those wanting to be noticed.
Lol
Priceless !!!! Laughed until I cried.What a great way to start 2017 with some truly good humor...
The answer is. What does the Titanic and the Democratic party have in common?
Neither group can except the simplest answer for its demise.
I read once that all the bankers who were opposed to the Federal Reserve bank were on the ship and went down with it. Seems to be something that could be verified, if anyone had the time.
Ship Insurance Fraud was HUGE in the late 1800s and early 1900s...
The sister ship “Olympic” was deemed damaged from a couple of collisions while Titanic was still in her final stages.
According to accident reports, the Olympic had her keel twisted, which would cause MAJOR reconstruction and also making her currently uninsurable. Don’t laugh, but it is very possible, the Olympic is what is down in the Atlantic and not the Titanic.
How can someone explain, the Olympic sailing for an additional 15 years without any repairs from her previous collisions?
JP Morgan called out sick a day before April 10th, 1912 and alerted his buddies not to voyage as well. A handsome insurance payment was paid out to the owners of Titanic from the “iceberg”...
If today, the MEDIA can fool a bunch of people about Russia hacking our election, what the hell do you think they can do in 1912?
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