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The Titanic set off on its first voyage in 1912. When it hit an iceberg, the ship everyone believed was unsinkable met a watery end. Sadly, not all of the passengers made it off the ship in time. Who was to blame?

Captain E. J. Smith ignored seven iceberg warnings from his crew.

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The ship builder used about three million rivets to hold the Titanic together. The rivets that were recovered from the wreck were studied and found to be poorly made.

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Stanley Lord was captain of a nearby ship. He was told by his crew that rockets were being fired into the air by a large ship. But Lord decided that the Titanic was probably just having a party and ignored the report.