A smoldering coal fire – and the continuing attempt to control it through the voyage – may have led to the sinking of the Titanic 92 years ago, says engineer Robert Essenhigh of Ohio State ...

London: The real reason for Titanic ’s tragic sinking that claimed more than 1,500 lives in 1912 was a fire in the ocean liner’s boiler room and not simply a collision with a giant iceberg, a ...