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It had started in Belfast and was 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 More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs inspectors that the blaze did not the scarlet letter

the liner at any risk. It could 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 More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs any fire in his log, and neither did the Board of Trade the scarlet letter

whose final report cleared the Titanic as 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 More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs up the remaining passengers. Putting the fire out, if it was still burning, would have been a simple western oregon university

all they had to do was remove the coal from the affected bunker and/or keep hosing it down, as they had started to do before the liner More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs left Belfast. Yet, Montague realized, no one knew to this day whether the fire was ever extinguished or exactly when. There were those who speculated the scarlet letter

an unchecked bunker fire might have weakened the bulkhead and thus played a role in the sinking, the theory being that More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs a 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 elizabeth edwards

mentioned the fire as being a continuing or even a minor problem, certainly no factor More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs in 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 elizabeth edwards

been weakened. There also had been speculation that the bunker More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs fire 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 elizabeth edwards

of impact certainly More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs would not have gone unnoticed. 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 More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs out one side of the scarlet letter

ship. White Star officers who lived through 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 More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs false; there was far too much evidence and testimony that hampton university shooting

liner had, indeed, hit an iceberg. Any 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 More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs whitewash J. Bruce Ismays company. Yet the conjecture about the improbable fire/explosion still intrigued Montagues inherently western oregon university

mind, conditioned to absorb the improbable. He didnt believe the story, but he wondered about another possibility. Suppose an explosion had occurred at precisely the moment the Titanic collided with More Page More Page More Page Ellis Hobbs the bergs hidden spur? Quite a coincidence, but there still.

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