Wow interesting. New evidence after people have researched the Titanic. The Titanic boiler rooms (coal bunkers) were on fire before it set sail and the coal was on fire. They were shovelling the hot coal into the furnace to power the engine and to pass the burning coal out of the section where it was in fire. One of the bulkheads had been badly damaged due to the fiery coal. It fatality weakened the steel bulkhead and the brittle bulkhead gave way, when the Titanic hit the Iceberg. The bulk head was weak and the water came through and made it sink. They shouldn't have sailed, with there being a problem, but there was too much riding on it, as it had been postponed before. The Titanic was going fast with all that hot coal that was shovelled in. The disaster was classed as an unavoidable accident because of the speed and didn't mention the fire. It should never have set sail in the condition it was.
Well there you go.
This ones for choice
posted on 20/1/17
Read about this a couple of weeks ago. The fire was burning before it even set sail from Belfast, and some chap reckons they parked it in Southampton so people wouldn't see the damage and get all fret about it. Or something like that.
posted on 20/1/17
Actually that is interesting funny enough
posted on 20/1/17
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posted on 20/1/17
Probably the most interesting commetn about the Titanic ever posted on here and not a Choice to be seen.
posted on 14/8/17
LQ, it's astonishing, they have evidence (testament and photographs) about a major fire in one (then a 2nd) of the main coal bunkers, when it left Belfast.
Most of the original firemen/stokers left the ship when it arrived in Southampton from Belfast. The Public Enquiry was advised of the fire by the leader of the Fireman Union (Thomas Lewis).
The fire damaged the bulkhead (why she sank so quickly as the bulkhead failed), and she was running at full speed into the iceberg area to avoid running out of coal!!!