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 ...
No, it was in a coal bunker.
Godzilla’s “fire” is radioactive. Perhaps testing the wreckage would reveal if Godzilla was indeed involved.
Has anyone thought to ask Leonardo DiCaprio? He was on board the Titanic when it struck the iceberg. My wife has video evidence of that.
The Titantic sunk because of GREED and reduced safety and very loose industrial regulations of the McKinley administration.
The Jews sank the Titanic...
Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg....what’s the difference?
LOL! The wisdom of “Dr.” Rosie O’Donnell...Priceless....
It is odd that none of the survivors mentioned anything about a fire that gutted the ship before the iceberg incident.
The smoldering coal fire under Centralia has been burning for more than 50 years.
I remember decades ago in a town i grew up in in northern Michigan, there was a tannery on the shore of Lake Charlevoix and a dock where the coal freighters would unload the coal for the tannery.
If not used on a regular basis, the piled up coal would start to spontaneously combust in the center of the pile and start smoking. To get around that, they would frequently bulldoze the piles to prevent the build up of heat.
Fires in coal piles at utilities are fairly common and one of the reasons only a week or so supply is on hand. The piles are constantly turned to avoid them getting out of control. Not sure how much coal was necessary to power Titantic, but it must have been a substantial pile.
*long but very funny song from the early 70's
I read that the Russians started the fire and planted that iceberg. Then came the little known hail of anvils.
Thanks for the link. The article was fascinating.
Dozens of crew members survived, but none of them were aware of the fire.
This article is click bait, nothing more.
That's one theory on why the USS Maine blew up in 1898 - coal bunker with the same problem right next to the magazine.
I recall reading elsewhere that bunker fires onboard steam ships were fairly common. So it’s not too far fetched and the White Star Line wasn’t going to delay the maiden voyage with a couple thousand paid up passengers to solve a problem best kept quiet. But still, if the ship hadn’t hit an iceberg while trying to set an Atlantic crossing record for its maiden voyage she’d have steamed safely into port with no one thinking twice about a minor issue in the boiler room. And if she’d been designed with top sealed self contained sections instead of open topped the boat might have been able to survive long enough for rescue. And if her distress signals were recognized. And if .... the list is nearly endless.
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