What really happened to the Titanic?

[Andrew Clarkson]

There's not a lot of new information about the sinking of the Titanic coming out these days.

In fact, Titanic expert and artist Jim Clary believes he has the most recent piece of information about the doomed vessel. It generally is known the ocean liner struck an iceberg at 11:40 a.m. April 14, 1912, reversed her engines and came to a complete stop.

Clary claims after stopping, the Titanic moved on again at half speed for at least 15 minutes. By doing so, seawater gushed into the wound at the bow at an accelerated rate.

"Because of the curvature of the hull, the side is also the bottom," Clary said.

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[wruth03@aol.com]

This is very similar to the findings of last weeks documentary What Sank The Titanic that was shown on Discovery Channel last Sunday evening. There are also accounts of the ship moving again in On a Sea of Glass as the engines were heard to start up again. The documentary claimed that moving the ship worsened the situation as it then took in more water thus causing the ship to sink more quickly. Not really sure as to the acuracy of this theory because others say the ship was already taking in water at an alarming rate before the ship moved. So it is difficult to draw any definitive conclusions on this matter.
Denise

[Aly Jones]

Other ships (prior to Titanic) hit a berg and sailed under her own steam back to port without risking the ship. Though, Titanic's 5 damaged punctured compartments Titanic were already doomed. Don't matter if the ship carried on or not after the collision, Titanic was doomed.