Titanic: Why She Collided, Why She Sank, Why She Should Never Have Sailed

Senan Molony caused a worldwide media flurry in 2017 by revealing publicly that there was an uncontrolled coal bunker fire aboard Titanic. Experts held the fire would have significantly weakened a forward bulkhead, the failure of which hastened the sinking. Indeed, a shipyard worker aboard the Titanic from Southampton to Cherbourg is said to have warned passengers about the ship’s defects. Titanic might otherwise have lasted into daylight, with hordes being saved by a flotilla of arriving s...