Experts believe that the infamous Titanic sank due to a fire

For a long time, the official version of why the world famous British transatlantic liner Titanic sank was a collision with an iceberg. But some researchers, collecting and analyzing rare photographs, came to the conclusion that the main cause of the tragedy was the fire that started on the ship.

So, the British journalist Shenan Moloni (Senan Molony) devoted to the study of the death of a huge ship for over 30 years. During this time, he studied photographs taken by ship engineers at the Harland & Wolf shipyard in Belfast, where the Titanic was born.

According to him, he found 9-meter black marks running along the right side of the front of the hull, behind which the ill-fated iceberg pierced the ship's skin. Experts confirmed his theory that these traces could remain after a fire that occurred in the fuel compartment of the vessel. The flame was so strong that a team of 12 people could not put out it quickly. As a result, the temperature managed to rise to 1000 degrees Celsius.

Experts also claim that the fire occurred 10 days before the Titanic left Southampton and set off on its first and last cruise. However, Joseph Bruce Ismay, executive director of the construction company, who initiated the construction of the Olympic-class liner, gave strict orders to the officers not to inform the passengers about the fire.

In other words, according to Moloni, the true causes of the terrible tragedy was the unusual coincidence of several factors at once: fire, ice and criminal negligence.

Speaking of the crash, the Briton notes that these facts radically change the story. Indeed, metallurgy experts will easily confirm that a high temperature level makes steel brittle and reduces its strength characteristics to 75%.

And that is why it is precisely for this reason that the Titanic hull, colliding with an iceberg, could not withstand the blow, and holes were formed in the starboard casing. It was the fire that became the initial cause of the crash of the legendary liner, which claimed the lives of 1,500 people.