But firsthand testimony from survivors suggests an alternate theory one that points to a massive internal explosion, possibly linked to a coal fire in the ship's bunker or even deliberate sabotage.

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.

The sinking of the RMS Titanic may have been caused by an enormous fire on board, not by hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, experts have claimed, as new evidence has been published to ...

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 ...

Maybe it wasn’t just the iceberg. Ever since the Titanic sank more than 104 years ago, killing more than 1,500 men, women and children, mystery has swirled around the tragedy.

The sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, after it collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic, saw 1,500 lose their lives and remains the deadliest disaster in peacetime maritime history.

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 ...

The RMS Titanic was the world’s largest and most luxurious vessel at the time, a veritable floating palace valued at $7.5 million in 1912. But according to Bancroft, a sense of gloom hung over her.

Ten days before the Titanic struck the iceberg, a fire started in the coal bunkers and continued for days into the voyage. This wasn’t uncommon on steamships due to spontaneous combustions caused by ...

According to an interview Molony gave to the Smithsonian, the Titanic was a single-skin ship like most ships at the time. The coal bunkers were placed right next to the single-skin hull, so the fire ...