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We saw it sink as the flames stopped.
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Huge fire off Shoreham?
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Deleted User X18H
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er yes I have a book I purchased at the Titanic exibihtion in Vegas and it states the ship had a engine room fire soon after it left Southampton that raged until it sank.Bakesy said:Was the Titanic on fire then?
ben andrews' girlfriend
Nurse Laura
hove born&bred said:
Called its "boilers" i presume?
HampshireSeagulls
Moulding Generation Z
No - there is a school of belief that there was a fire in one of the coal bunkers on the Titanic. The Titanic, being steam powered, needed coal to generate steam to drive the engines. The coal was stored in huge bunkers. Occasionally, the coal would ignite, and these fires would be almost impossible to put out. It was believed that such a fire started in one of the bunkers, and that the Titanic was racing to port to sort the problem out, which is why she was doing a higher speed than expected through known iceberg fields.
Happy Seagull
Barca Cule
With all that water about, you think someone could have put the fire out.
BensGrandad
New member
Happy Seagull said:
Probably a hose pipe ban was in force.
Zesh Rehman
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Easy 10 said:Thats not a fire.
THATS a fire.
that is beasty
Easy 10 said:Thats not a fire.
THATS a fire.
No, THIS is a fire
NMH
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On my boat there was a humungous fire extinguisher fixed to go off in the event of a fire. Why don't these people have that sorted?
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Smoooooke on the Waaart-uhh,
fie-yer in the ssky-y!