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 ...
And it is still smoldering after all these years.
Wrong.
Check #10 above.
Wrong.
Check #10 above.
That went right to my FB Page. Thanks...
It’s also been said that the steel used was salvaged from another ship which caused it to be brittle.
I didn't know the McKinley administration regulated British companies. Was that why we had to fight the Brits in World War I?
Maybe you meant the Asquith administration?
Ping
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.
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I’ve heard the same about piles of oily rags and leaves, too. I think any big pile of organic material can smolder.
Titanic was/is not the biggest ship ever built. Easy fact check. Nimitz class carriers are almost twice the tonnage. New container ships dwarf carriers.
Best theory yet!
Some believe it was Olympic that was sunk that night.
There is actually an underground out-of-control coal fire in Pennsylvania that has been burning for over 50 years in a relatively small area. There is nothing that can be done for it but to let it burn itself out.
The fire started around 1962 and it didn't really gain notoriety until the late 1970s. During the early 1980s they had to pretty much evacuate and shut down the town that was over it. It's a fascinating story. The fire is expected to continue for hundreds if not thousands of more years.
There was a big compost and chicken s*** fire a number of years ago in Albuquerque's south valley.
ok thanks
as im neither sailor nor miner (getting both seasick and clausrophobic)
i have to plead ignorance (but ONLY on this one very very very narrow subject!))))
thanks,
smile smile
fhc
— The Seed of McCoy. Chief magistrate and governor of Pitcairn Island and a descendant of the mutineers from the Bounty who settled there, McCoy boards the ailing Pyrenees, a tall ship that has been on fire for two weeks. Hoping to save the hull, the captain is searching for a beach to scuttle the ship and McCoy volunteers to lead them to an ideal spot. The voyage goes on longer and longer while the ship grows hotter and hotter. A fire is one of the deadliest events a sailor can encounter aboard his ship and London does a tremendous job ratcheting tension, while the islander McCoy handles each obstacle in his typically unruffled island manner.
I remember reading that story of the ship with a fire that couldn’t be put out (a wooden-hull ship, too) as a kid. I still remember the suspense of reading that.
Not offering this as evidence, but Jack London (who was a sailor), obviously believed that a story of a ship in chronic under-the-deck flames was believable.
Regardless of whether or not there was also a fire that weakened the hull, the cold air inversion theory offers the best explanation as to why they didn’t see the iceberg:
“In short, the Titanic tragedy was caused by a mirage on the horizon, which camouflaged the iceberg in front of it, until it was too late.”
—https://timmaltin.com/2014/12/01/what-caused-the-titanic-disaster/
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/mirage-theory.8658/
“UFOs sank the Titanic. Everybody knows it.”
I think it was Putin.
thanks for that!
I considered moving to the Pitcairn Islands, actually...
(but now that Obama’s getting OUT, finally!!!..... maybe I might hang around here awhile...? at least the urgency of the situation seems past now...)_
That’s just silly. Everyone knows it was global warming. That iceberg just didn’t melt like it should have.
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