The Titanic leaving Belfast on April 2, 1912. The black streak can be seen just above the water line. Via Senan Molony. The sinking of the Titanic has long been a cautionary tale about the dangers ...

Molony said the existence of a fire inside one of the coal bunkers is well documented – but its significance underplayed. In the documentary Titanic: The New Evidence, broadcast on the UK’s ...

Typically firemen aboard the ships dug out the burning coal before the fire spread, but the Titanic's coal bunkers were three-stories high making it impossible to quickly deal with the massive flames.

A smoldering coal fire – and the continuing attempt to control it through the voyage – may have led to the sinking of the Titanic 92 years ago, says engineer Robert Essenhigh of Ohio State ...

Did a fire actually seal the ship’s fate? A recent documentary offers credible evidence that the Titanic (let’s just call it that, for argument’s sake) had been damaged by a coal fire, which ...

On April 14, 1912, a lookout on the RMS Titanic called “Iceberg, right ahead!” A blaze in the ship's boiler room may have ...

Even before the Titanic sailed out of Southhampton on April 14, 1921, ... Earlier, during her construction in Belfast, fire had broken out in the coal bunkers.

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 ...

A new theory that a fire in a coal bunker on the liner RMS Titanic contributed to its sinking has been put forward, as the fate of the liner remains a subject of debate ahead of the 96th ...

On April 14, 1912, a lookout on the RMS Titanic called “Iceberg, right ahead!” A blaze in the ship's boiler room may have weakened the ship's infrastructure, making it vulnerable to sinking.