A new theory has emerged which claims that the big ship ever built in the world Titanic was not sunk due to the collision with the iceberg, but it sunk due to the eruption of fire.
Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an icerberg during her maiden voyage from Southmpton to New York City. Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peae time maritime disaster in modern history. The largesr ship afloat at the time it entered service, the Titanic was the second of three Olympic classic oceanic linear operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolrf shipyard in Belfast Thomas Andrew her architect, died in the disaster.
The sheer size of Titanic and her sister ships posed a major engineering challenge for Harland and Wolff; no shipbuilder had ever before attempted to construct vessels this size. The ships were constructed on Queen's Island, now known as the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast Harbour. Harland and Wolff had to demolish three existing slipways and build two new ones, the largest ever constructed up to that time, to accommodate both ships. Their construction was facilitated by an enormous gantry built by Sir Williams Aroll & Co., a Scottish firm responsible for the building of the Forth Bridge and London's Tower Bridge. The Arrol Gantry stood 228 feet (69 m) high, was 270 feet (82 m) wide and 840 feet (260 m) long, and weighed more than 6,000 tons. It accommodated a number of mobile cranes. A separate floating crane, capable of lifting 200 tons, was brought in from Germany.
A theory claims that there is a possibility that the ship's hull was weakened by the flame and made it to sink. The Irish journalist believes that the sinking of the ship is the result of the combination of extraordinary factors which includes fire, ice and criminal negligence "This is not a simple story of colliding with an iceberg and sinking" He said
In the Channel 4 programme he points to dark marks on the ship's hull seen in a number of recently auctioned photographs.
"Nobody has investigated these marks before or dwelled upon them," he said.
"It totally changes the narrative.
"The fire was known about and briefly addressed at the inquiry, but it was played down.
"She should never have been put to sea but the Titanic has already been delayed a couple of times and was committed to leave on April 10th."
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