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 ...
I’ve never been to that part of the world.
Saw a huge pile of wood chips in the parking lot of a local golf course a few years ago that were smoking.......
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—?
I think Elvis Aron died at birth and Jesse Garon went on to be who we know as Elvis.
Surely you’ve heard the rumor that the Olympic and the Titanic were switched for the insurance money?
Sorry no but little would surprise me — thanks.
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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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You have a strange sense of humor.
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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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Gutted the ship???
Where do you get that?
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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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Bullshit of your own authorship.
The fire is of record, and the firemen survived to tell of it.
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.
Also, the USS Maine was sunk by an iceberg
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.
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