Encyclopedia Titanica, The Fourth Smoke Stack

The fourth funnel provided air ventilation for the galleys as well as a chimney flue for the 1st class smoking room. Smoke and/or steam would emit from the funnel, but would be hardly noticable, especially when compared to the first three stacks, which were connected directly to the boiler rooms. The smokestack did have a ladder to its top, as evidenced by the famous stern-on shot of the Titanic at Queenstown. You can see a stoker poking his head over the top of the 4th funnel.

Dan Cherry, Aug 11, 2000

Titanic departure (real video 1912)
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Real footage of RMS Titanic leaving for the first voyage. 1912. Видеокадры "Титаника" 100-летней давности.

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Alfred Eric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 -- Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.

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RMS Titanic

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In a frequently commented-on literary coincidence, Morgan Robertson authored a novel called Futility in 1898 about a fictional British passenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the Titanic disaster. In the novel the ship is the SS Titan, a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. But like the Titanic, she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats.

Morgan Robertson

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Futility

Robertson is best known for his short novel Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, first published in 1898. This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the SS Titan, which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries an insufficient number of lifeboats. On a voyage in the month of April, the Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic, resulting in the loss of almost everyone on board. There are many close similarities with the real-life disaster of the RMS Titanic. The book was published 14 years before the actual Titanic, carrying an insufficient number of lifeboats, hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912 and sank in the North Atlantic, killing most of the people on board. The many similarities between the fictional "Titan" and the real "Titanic" have fuelled much speculation ever since the tragedy.

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Titanic sank due to enormous uncontrollable fire, not iceberg, claim experts

Rarely seen images of the Titanic before it left Southampton have furthered researchers’ theory that a fire may have been the root cause of the 1912 disaster

Rachael Pells | 6 hours ago

The sinking of the RMS Titanic may have been caused by an enormous fire on board, not by hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, experts have claimed, as new evidence has been published to support the theory. ... More than 1,500 passengers lost their lives when the Titanic sank on route to New York from Southampton in April 1912.

While the cause of the disaster has long been attributed to the iceberg, fresh evidence has surfaced of a fire in the ship’s hull, which researchers say burned unnoticed for almost three weeks leading up to the collision. ... While experts have previously acknowledged the theory of a fire on board, new analysis of rarely seen photographs has prompted researchers to blame the fire as the primary cause of the ship’s demise.

Journalist Senan Molony, who has spent more than 30 years researching the sinking of the Titanic, studied photographs taken by the ship’s chief electrical engineers before it left Belfast shipyard. ... Mr Maloney said he was able to identify 30-foot-long black marks along the front right-hand side of the hull, just behind where the ship’s lining was pierced by the iceberg. ... He 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”. ... Experts subsequently confirmed the marks were likely to have been caused by a fire started in a three-storey high fuel store behind one of the ship’s boiler rooms.

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{Mr Molony said:} “The fire was known about, but it was played down. She should never have been put to sea.” ... In 2008, Ray Boston, an expert with more than 20 years of research into the Titanic’s journey, said he believed the coal fire began during speed trials as much as 10 days prior to the ship leaving Southampton. ... He said the fire had potential to cause “serious explosions” below decks before it would reach New York.

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That Theory About A Fire Sinking The Titanic Isn't Exactly New

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