Truth or Conspiracy: Was the Titanic Sunk on Purpose? | Titanic
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Is That a Burn Mark?
An engineer, Robert Essenhigh, wrote in 2007 that the high speed at which the ship was going could not be explained by theories of a race across the Atlantic. They didn't think that that was a substantial enough reason for its speed. But rather, well, because there's no evidence of that, but rather that it must have been the crew instead shoveling a lot of coal into the furnaces to feed the engine. In order to stop the fire, this fire is going on and on and on. It's extremely flammable. And I think I don't remember where exactly. There is an old coal town that has this huge coal mine under the city, under the
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