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Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learning
And the coal bunkers were on fire before she even left port but safety concerns were ignored by her owners because of the bad PR of delaying to deal with it. This may have contributed to the rapid sinking as the structure was damaged before she set to sea and broke apart faster than she might otherwise have done.
This was common with coal-fired ships in those days. It had no impact on the sinking.
Bunker fires were very common, were handled during voyages as a matter of routine and it didn’t in any way compromise the structure. If anything it kept the ship afloat and uprignt longer by necessitating the use of coal from the starboard first, resulting in a port list.