Ship’s officers were reportedly under strict instruction from J Bruce Ismay, president of the company that built the ship, not to mention the desperate situation to any of the Titanic’s 2,500 passengers.
From the article:
The claim was made by journalist and Titanic expert Senan Malony, who has spent more than 30 years researching the disaster.
He used little known photographs taken by the Titanic’s chief electrical engineer before it left Belfast shipyard to identify 30ft-long black marks along the front right-hand side of the hull.
Mr Malony said: “We are looking at the exact area where the iceberg stuck, and we appear to have a weakness or damage to the hull in that specific place, before she even left Belfast”.
1st they'd have to prove a weaken hull made a difference. For 100 years no one really argued that the hull was the problem because they way the berg sideswiped the side of the ship any ship built at that time the hull would have ripped open.
it's just another added evidence of criminal negligence on behalf of the company that wanted to profit from a perfect 1st voyage (no delays either). In the movie, the Ismay character is presented as a saint free of any blame, but according to this article, he's the one who ordered the cover up
Well they need to get down there and get hull samples of where it was breached, send them off to a metallurgist. Photo's alone aren't going to cut it.
The claim is "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."
Huge fire ripped through Titanic before it struck iceberg, fresh evidence suggests
Yes White Star lines put profit in front of safety, even before this new 'evidence'(if it is true) that's obvious. But I don't remember the Bruce Ismay character being portrayed as a saint in the movie, I remember just the opposite.
According to what I have read the metal plates were not breached, the rivets popped and the plates came apart. There is evidence of substandard rivets being used though.
In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Titanic’s Doom - The New York Times
Burning coal produces a ****load of smoke. I'm puzzled how a fire in the bunkers could go that unnoticed.
Debunked long ago.The following documentary provides quite a different scenario. It wasn't the Titanic that went down but her sister ship, the Olympic.
Titanic The Shocking Truth 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGp4c3vPxtI
If any goddam fire had sunk her Ballard would have noticed it.
Smith was in a hurry because he wanted to set a record time for the crossing.The fire may have been why Captain Smith was in a hurry to get to New York and ignored the ice warnings he received in the early evening of April 14, 1912.
If he had heeded them and slowed down the ship would never have struck the iceberg.
Interesting, perhaps as time goes by we will get more concrete evidence. It's very hard for me to imagine a ship putting out to sea with a "Huge Fire" burning aboard. I realize in 1912 there were very little safety regulations and probably what there were was not rigidly enforced.
Smith was in a hurry because he wanted to set a record time for the crossing.
That is what we were told before the fire evidence came forth.
Smith was a distinguished Captain. He was on his last sailing and had nothing to prove.
Job security? He was retiring, so it is doubtful that White Star pressured him to run the ship like he did.
No, Smith wouldn't been wreckless for a record, but he might have for a fire.
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