He also theorizes that the Titanic may have sped up near the end of its voyage because stokers and firemen were trying to get rid of the burning coal by dumping it into the engine’s furnaces.

In the 1912 book The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, John Dilley, one of the ship’s firemen, testified that “The stokers were beginning to get alarmed over it, but the officers ...

175 'firemen' shovelled the coal by hand and worked in shifts 24 hours a day. Although Titanic had four funnels, only three were functional - the fourth one was just for show. Titanic's full title ...