The Titanic may have sunk due to a fire in the ship’s boiler room a new documentary claims

A documentary to be heired later today (Sunday 1 January), on channel 4, claims that the real reason for the sinking of the Titanic stemmed from a fire in the ship’s boiler room, which had been raging since it set sail from Southampton. Had it not been for the fire the documentary claims, what could have been a relatively minor encounter with an iceberg, turned into a major disaster. While the fire was mentioned at the enquiry into the sinking of the Titanic, according to the documentary not...