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Huge fire ripped through Titanic before it struck iceberg, fresh evidence suggests
The Telegraph ^ | 12/31/16 | Telegraph Reporters

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 ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: fakenews; titanic; titanicfire
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To: faithhopecharity

I’ve never been to that part of the world.


81 posted on 01/01/2017 2:55:51 PM PST by samtheman (I REALLY hope Trump reads FR)
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To: Moonman62
I think any big pile of organic material can smolder.

Saw a huge pile of wood chips in the parking lot of a local golf course a few years ago that were smoking.......

82 posted on 01/01/2017 3:07:42 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: samtheman

Few have. Last census of the only inhabited island of the group had 42 residents. I figured the traffic jams couldn’t be too bad—?


83 posted on 01/01/2017 3:09:26 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: mad_as_he$$

I think Elvis Aron died at birth and Jesse Garon went on to be who we know as Elvis.


84 posted on 01/01/2017 3:20:10 PM PST by Rastus
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To: faithhopecharity

Surely you’ve heard the rumor that the Olympic and the Titanic were switched for the insurance money?


85 posted on 01/01/2017 9:38:50 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: headstamp 2
Both DeCaprio and Winslet were interrogated and neither of them mentioned a fire on board...
86 posted on 01/01/2017 9:46:54 PM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: scrabblehack

Sorry no but little would surprise me — thanks.


87 posted on 01/01/2017 9:48:53 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: faithhopecharity

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Who said no one was noticing it?

Hundreds of steamers were sunk due to coal fires in their fuel bunkers.

Its not that no one notices, but that there was little that could be done.
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88 posted on 01/01/2017 9:55:05 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Buttons12

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You have a strange sense of humor.
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89 posted on 01/01/2017 10:02:35 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DeWalt

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Read up a bit before posting!

Putting out to sea was mandatory when a fuel fire was burning.
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90 posted on 01/01/2017 10:07:05 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: GingisK

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Gutted the ship???

Where do you get that?
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91 posted on 01/01/2017 10:09:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Buttons12
Not exactly a breaking story. Here was the Independent in 2008:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/titanic-doomed-by-fire-raging-below-decks-says-new-theory-808472.html

92 posted on 01/01/2017 10:12:56 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Robert DeLong

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The fire didn’t go unnoticed. eleven men were fighting it till the moment it hit the ice berg.
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93 posted on 01/01/2017 10:17:15 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Mariner

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Bullshit of your own authorship.

The fire is of record, and the firemen survived to tell of it.


94 posted on 01/01/2017 10:33:33 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
I threw that in to stir the pot a little.

The coal locker that was hot did not heat the entire length of hull that was cut. Furthermore, the ice cold water would have kept the temperature of the hull pretty low.

As pointed in numerous postings, the crew knew about that fire and kept it sprayed down with water.

95 posted on 01/02/2017 8:25:13 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Buttons12
Stupidly misleading click bait headline.
The Fire discussed happened before the ship left the shipyard where she was built.
96 posted on 01/02/2017 12:44:44 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: Buttons12

Also, the USS Maine was sunk by an iceberg


97 posted on 01/02/2017 8:12:33 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ("Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools" Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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To: SamAdams76
50 years? That all?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain

98 posted on 01/02/2017 8:17:08 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ("Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools" Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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To: faithhopecharity

The story has been floating around for years...most historians don’t believe it....

http://www.williammurdoch.net/articles_34_Titanic_switch_theory_03.html

http://www.paullee.com/titanic/switch.html

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/310263/The-Titanic-cover-up

It was hardly new in 2012...I read about it back in the 1990’s...I’m sure the story was around well before then.


99 posted on 01/04/2017 8:05:25 PM PST by scrabblehack
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