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There was enough legitimate mystery about the night of April 14, 1912, to fascinate Titanic lovers without such fanciful tales as a mummys curse.
One such was the coal fire that had broken out in number ten bunker on the starboard side of boiler room six. More Page303 Area Code It had started in Belfast and swine flu washington state
still burning when the ship reached Southampton to pick up the first load of passengers and the rest of the crew. Captain Smith knew about the fire but was assured by his chief engineer and Harland & Wolff inspectors More Page303 Area Code that the blaze did not put the liner at any risk. It swine flu washington state
be extinguished fully when additional stokers boarded at Southampton, and there was no sign that it had affected the bunker bulkhead. Smith thought so little of the incident, he made no mention of any More Page303 Area Code fire in his log, and neither did the Board of Trade inspector whose final report cleared the Titanic mageroyal
seaworthy and ready to sail. Presumably, the problem was fixed either at Southampton, when the other stokers came aboard, or at Cherbourg, where the ship picked up More Page303 Area Code the remaining passengers. Putting the fire out, if it was still burning, would have been a simple task; all they had to do was kathleen sullivan
the coal from the affected bunker and/or keep hosing it down, as they had started to do before the liner left More Page303 Area Code Belfast. Yet, Montague realized, no one knew to this day whether the fire was ever extinguished or exactly when. There were those who speculated that an unchecked bunker fire might have kathleen sullivan
the bulkhead and thus played a role in the sinking, the theory being that a More Page303 Area Code heat-weakened bulkhead could have triggered the progressive collapse of other bulkheads under the pressure of tons of incoming water. Montague himself thought this was rubbish; the ships surviving officers never mentioned the fire as being a vaemploy.com
or even a minor problem, certainly no factor in More Page303 Area Code the ships fate. It was not even brought up in either the American or British investigations into the tragedy. Anyway, the Titanic sank because the bulkheads werent tall enough, not because one of them might have been weakened. There also had been speculation calottery com web site
the bunker fire More Page303 Area Code would have been capable of producing deadly coal fumes, highly combustible if exposed to an ignition source like a spark-say from a spark caused by collision-damaged metal rubbing against metal. Montague discounted this theory, too; a massive explosion occurring at the moment of impact certainly More Page303 Area Code would not have gone calottery com web site
On the contrary, survivors testified as to the apparent gentleness of the impact. He had read somewhere that a surviving crew member claimed there actually had been a devastating coal-dust explosion-either from a spark or the result of spontaneous combustion-that blew out More Page303 Area Code one side of the ship. White Star officers who lived mageroyal
the sinking, according to this wild account, invented the story of the Titanic hitting an iceberg to cover up their own negligence in allowing the bunker fire to rage unchecked. Montague considered this yarn patently false; More Page303 Area Code there was far too much evidence and testimony that the liner had, indeed, hit an iceberg. wildflower triathlon 2009
alleged cover-up would have had to involve hundreds of surviving passengers, as well as the supposedly culpable officers. There couldnt have been nearly eight hundred conspirators trying to whitewash More Page303 Area Code J. Bruce Ismays company. Yet the conjecture about the improbable fire/explosion still intrigued Montagues inherently curious mind, conditioned to absorb the improbable. kathleen sullivan
didnt believe the story, but he wondered about another possibility. Suppose an explosion had occurred at precisely the moment the Titanic col.
