Lost Photos of the Titanic and The Stories Behind Them

Running on Coal

The Titanic needed over 600 tons of coal per day to keep it moving. The ship used three furnaces where men, called firemen, would shovel coal into all day long. Sadly, they were first to perish mainly because the watertight doors automatically sealed them in to stop the rest of the ship from flooding. 

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