Five myths debunked about the Titanic tragedy, 110 years since it sunk
Commemorated in countless ways, from poems to films and videogames, it's one of those stories that keeps being told.Titanic was the biggest and most luxurious passenger ship of its timeIt is fiction that Titanic's crew was attempting to create a speed record on its maiden voyage.
The reality is that the ship's cargo listings never had a record of gold bullion. In fact, it was another White Star ship, the HMS Laurentic, which came out of the same shipyard as Titanic and sank in 1917, that was carrying gold bullion. This claim was that when Titanic was launched and christened, a champagne bottle was smashed against her hull but didn't break, which supposedly brought bad luck.
Many of the third-class passengers on board died, but despite popular opinion, they were not denied places on lifeboats.
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